Monday, February 3, 2020, 11:30 AM – 1 PM EST

JOHN BANJA, Professor, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Medical Ethicist,
Center for Ethics, Emory University

“Artificial Intelligence and the Western Workforce: Will AI Take Our Jobs?”

The history of technological development and its use has clearly shown that new technologies have created more jobs than they have replaced.  Innovative technologies frequently result in greater demand and, thus, greater productivity, which has been good for job markets. However, artificial intelligence products, especially the ones characterized by “deep learning” computational functions, are generating great concern among futurists who worry that once these technologies become adopted, they will increasingly assume human job functions without improving job prospects for human workers.  There is fear they will simply take over. And indeed, people in numerous job sectors including banking, delivery services, assembly line work, and the food industry are expected to be replaced by AI-run devices over the next five to twenty years. Come hear John Banja discuss the ways artificial intelligence is likely to alter the workforce in the not-so-distant future (and beyond) and the ways in which we might prepare for its doing so.