Washington: artificial intelligence (AI) will replace at least 7,800 people in the company, tech giant IBM said Monday, sending a shockwave akin to the drop of a tactical nuclear weapon on the global job market.
IBM’s Indian-American CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg News that the company will pause hiring for jobs that could be replaced by artificial intelligence in the next few years. As a result, hiring in back-office functions such as HR and accounting is suspended or slowed down.
“These non-customer-facing roles represent roughly 26,000 workers…it’s easy to see that 30% of them will be replaced by AI and automation in five years,” he said. rice field. 7,800 jobs were lost.
The projections, while trivial compared to the tech layoffs in recent months, follow a recent Goldman Sachs report that threatens up to 300 million jobs in the US and Europe over the next few years. I am warning you to be exposed. promised ability. ” The rest of the world will not remain unaffected.
IBM currently employs approximately 260,000 people worldwide (about a third of them in India) and continues to hire for software development and customer facing roles, with the first We added about 7,000 people in the quarter.
But the sense of impending doom for artificial intelligence is so great that George Hinton, considered the godfather of AI, quit his job at Google last week to speak out about the risks of unrestricted AI development. is now possible. Including the spread of misinformation, job market disruptions and other more dangerous possibilities.
Hinton’s immediate concern is fake news, but he warns that the Internet will be flooded with deceptive photos, videos and texts that the average person will “no longer know what is true.” He worries that AI technology will disrupt the job market and replace people who handle menial jobs such as paralegals, personal assistants and translators.
“It takes the hassle out of it. warned of posing a threat to humanity.
“The idea that this would actually make us smarter than humans — a few people believed it. I thought it was 30 to 50 years away, or even longer. Obviously, I don’t think so anymore.” ” he told the newspaper.
Hinton, a 75-year-old Toronto-based technology leader and scientist, wrote a letter calling for a moratorium on the development of new systems and warning of the risks of AI because it “poses serious risks to society.” , was not one of the researchers. Last week, after a phone call with CEO Sundar Pichai, he said he doesn’t want to publicly criticize Google or other companies until after he leaves his job.
Google says it remains committed to a “responsible approach to AI as it continues to seek to understand emerging risks while innovating boldly.” In his CBS 60 Minutes interview last month, Pichai said that due to the inevitable job disruptions that affect “knowledge workers,” including writers, accountants, architects and, ironically, even software his engineers. He said society needs to adapt to AI.
“This will affect every product from every company,” warns Pichai.
Google, which was seen as a leader in the AI business, was forced to respond to Microsoft (led, incidentally, by Indian-American Satya Nadella) with a bot called Bard after powering its Bing search engine with Microsoft. It seems that. It’s a chatbot, challenging Google’s core business.
Pichai also proposed a treaty between nations to make AI safer for the world, rules “in line with human values, including morality,” and invited social scientists, ethicists, and philosophers to debate. I let them participate.
IBM’s Indian-American CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg News that the company will pause hiring for jobs that could be replaced by artificial intelligence in the next few years. As a result, hiring in back-office functions such as HR and accounting is suspended or slowed down.
“These non-customer-facing roles represent roughly 26,000 workers…it’s easy to see that 30% of them will be replaced by AI and automation in five years,” he said. rice field. 7,800 jobs were lost.
The projections, while trivial compared to the tech layoffs in recent months, follow a recent Goldman Sachs report that threatens up to 300 million jobs in the US and Europe over the next few years. I am warning you to be exposed. promised ability. ” The rest of the world will not remain unaffected.
IBM currently employs approximately 260,000 people worldwide (about a third of them in India) and continues to hire for software development and customer facing roles, with the first We added about 7,000 people in the quarter.
But the sense of impending doom for artificial intelligence is so great that George Hinton, considered the godfather of AI, quit his job at Google last week to speak out about the risks of unrestricted AI development. is now possible. Including the spread of misinformation, job market disruptions and other more dangerous possibilities.
Hinton’s immediate concern is fake news, but he warns that the Internet will be flooded with deceptive photos, videos and texts that the average person will “no longer know what is true.” He worries that AI technology will disrupt the job market and replace people who handle menial jobs such as paralegals, personal assistants and translators.
“It takes the hassle out of it. warned of posing a threat to humanity.
“The idea that this would actually make us smarter than humans — a few people believed it. I thought it was 30 to 50 years away, or even longer. Obviously, I don’t think so anymore.” ” he told the newspaper.
Hinton, a 75-year-old Toronto-based technology leader and scientist, wrote a letter calling for a moratorium on the development of new systems and warning of the risks of AI because it “poses serious risks to society.” , was not one of the researchers. Last week, after a phone call with CEO Sundar Pichai, he said he doesn’t want to publicly criticize Google or other companies until after he leaves his job.
Google says it remains committed to a “responsible approach to AI as it continues to seek to understand emerging risks while innovating boldly.” In his CBS 60 Minutes interview last month, Pichai said that due to the inevitable job disruptions that affect “knowledge workers,” including writers, accountants, architects and, ironically, even software his engineers. He said society needs to adapt to AI.
“This will affect every product from every company,” warns Pichai.
Google, which was seen as a leader in the AI business, was forced to respond to Microsoft (led, incidentally, by Indian-American Satya Nadella) with a bot called Bard after powering its Bing search engine with Microsoft. It seems that. It’s a chatbot, challenging Google’s core business.
Pichai also proposed a treaty between nations to make AI safer for the world, rules “in line with human values, including morality,” and invited social scientists, ethicists, and philosophers to debate. I let them participate.
