Artificial Intelligence (AI) in London
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how we live and work. It’s used in hiring decisions, in everyday tasks and part of the skills employers are looking for.
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- What opportunities, if any, do you think AI brings?
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Community Member 4 weeks agoI am worried about how AI will impact employment opportunities for young adults. It has been concerning is that I am not sure if AI companies and/or politicians have a plan for this with the rise of AI use. In talks I've watched and...
Show full commentI am worried about how AI will impact employment opportunities for young adults. It has been concerning is that I am not sure if AI companies and/or politicians have a plan for this with the rise of AI use. In talks I've watched and publications I have read, CEOs of AI and social media companies reassure that it will "all be okay" but don't have anything more concrete to say than that. It is reassuring that the Mayor has set up a taskforce to look directly at this. It would be reassuring to hear from the Mayor's taskforce about how politicians are considering it's impact (for better or worse) and what they can do to make most of opportunities and mitigate challenges.
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Community Member 3 weeks agoTo answer the other question: Maybe the benefits of AI are that it will get rid of tedious jobs and politicians and CEOs alike will somehow transform character, and return profits to create a universal income for all citizens. So we can...
Show full commentTo answer the other question: Maybe the benefits of AI are that it will get rid of tedious jobs and politicians and CEOs alike will somehow transform character, and return profits to create a universal income for all citizens. So we can live lives of leisure, spend more time with family and friends, and less time working.
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Community Member 3 weeks agoI mean. I think AI has significant potential, both for better or worse. In a positive scenario AI and associated systems could provide significant acceleration of medical science and scientific development more broadly. This is already...
Show full commentI mean. I think AI has significant potential, both for better or worse. In a positive scenario AI and associated systems could provide significant acceleration of medical science and scientific development more broadly. This is already happen and AI has demonstrated its impact with scientific innovation by the likes of companies like DeepMind in terms of successfully predicting protein 3d structure that has benefits for medicine, biotechnology and linked scientific domains.
I have consistently seen slightly more worrying cases in the world of work. I read online that several of the "Big 4" accountancy have significantly decreased graduate recruitment.
On the front page of City AM today (20th May) its stated on the front page that "Standard Charted has announced plans to slash almost 8,000 back office roles, stoking fears about the wide scale threat of artificial intelligence poses to the global job market".
I feel sorry for graduates and young people more broadly. There are several factors that have come together at the same time which means competition for jobs is substantially higher than in the recent past.
There needs to be reasonable opportunities for young people to gain in demand skills for the labour market and to improve their employability.
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