Job Loss and AI: Startups Accentuate the Positive – InformationWeek
A new report from Village Capital in partnership with Autodesk Foundation highlights the opportunities for startups to contribute to a positive future for workers in a world re-shaped by the input of artificial intelligence and automation.
The rise of artificial intelligence has inspired enthusiasm about the potential for benefits to humankind in terms of medical advances and other scientific achievements. But at the same time, it has created fear as well — could these AIs go rogue and become evil? Or, more likely, could they learn to perform the tasks that humans are now paid to do and thereby eliminate jobs?
The potentially negative aspects, particularly the one about jobs, have commanded a lot of attention over the past few years. For instance, when a top consulting firm issues a report that says AI and automation could eliminate 73 million US jobs by 2030, that’s a sobering figure.