AI will create a ‘serious number of losers’ in job market, DeepMind co-founder warns

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Mustafa Suleyman said people who lose their jobs to automation will be “very unhappy, very agitated.”

The rise of advanced artificial intelligence will upend the white-collar job market and result in a large number of “very unhappy” workers who will be forced out of their professions, according to a co-founder of the Google-owned AI lab DeepMind.

“Unquestionably, many of the tasks in white-collar land will look very different in the next five to 10 years,” Suleyman said during an event at GIC’s Bridge Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, according to“There are going to be a serious number of losers [and they] will be very unhappy, very agitated,” he added.

At the same time, the bank warned the technology could put a whopping 300 million full-time jobs at risk of “automation.”Suleyman asserted that the US and other governments will need to consider ways to support workers who lose their gigs due to AI. “This is a political and economic measure we have to start talking about in a serious way,” he added.Suleyman’s warning came weeks after Pichai told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that society needs toSuleyman said white-collar workers are likely to be impacted by AI.Pichai admitted that he expects job losses among so-called “knowledge workers,” such as writers, accountants, architects, and software engineers.

 

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