How to arm yourself against AI at work: the best books and courses
It’s been just over a year since artificial intelligence became a mainstream conversation topic with the launch of systems such as ChatGPT. What had felt like the dystopian stuff of sci-fi to most was suddenly an everyday reality as generative tools made it possible for anyone to play around with the tech. It rapidly made its way into offices, and many headlines purported a profound impact on the future of work.
Goldman Sachs has suggested that generative AI could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide by 2030. While recent research from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) predicted that as many as eight million UK jobs could be lost to AI in what it called the “worst case scenario” in the future. It comes after Meta Chief Mark Zuckerberg rocked the internet by announcing that his company would attempt to build an ‘AGI system’ which could theoretically carry out tasks on a par with human levels of intelligence — and make it freely available to the public. As well as igniting fears over ethics in politicians and experts, it led many to ask: is AI coming for my job?
The onset of AI-induced job cuts was signalled by IBM last May when they announced they had halted the hiring process on non-customer facing roles which could be done by AI. While British telecoms giant BT said it is planning to cut up to 55,000 jobs by 2030, with at least 10,000 potentially to be replaced by some form of artificial intelligence.
It’s not just big tech companies who are onboarding AI systems. “We’ve seen a lot of experimentation around how
