8 AI doesn’t threaten our jobs

 

This chapter covers

  • The overstated concerns regarding AI’s effect on employment
  • The challenges AI faces in automating many human tasks
  • The problems of applying AI in the real world
  • The dangerous effects of inadequately designed AI systems

In this chapter, we will demonstrate, using various examples, that despite concerns about AI taking over jobs, the majority of human occupations remain beyond the reach of current AI techniques.

8.1 Are simple human tasks easy to automate?

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