Need to get up to speed on gen AI? Here’s how

The number of jobs that AI will destroy is an open question. A far safer bet is the prediction that workers who know how to use it will eventually replace those who do not.

Euan BlackWork and careers reporter

Jun 19, 2024 – 5.01am

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There’s no shortage of doomsday predictions related to the emerging influence of artificial intelligence. Tesla chief executive Elon Musk told British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last November we would eventually reach a point with AI “where no job is needed”.

Months earlier, Goldman Sachs estimated a fifth of work done globally could be automated, which would result in the loss of roughly 300 million full-time jobs in big economies alone.