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This Is Why

Could AI really take your job?

This Is Why

Sky News

Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2023

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

As BT announce they’re expecting to cut up to 10,000 jobs in the next decade due to advances in Artificial Intelligence, concerns remain over the country's readiness to deal with the new and surprisingly rapid evolution of AI.
So how worried should we really be that AI could be coming for all our jobs? And what are our rights when it comes to AI in the office.
On the Sky News Daily, Leah Boleto is joined by Sky’s business correspondent Paul Kelso who has been speaking to firms already integrating AI into their workforce, and Mary Towers, employment rights expert from the Trade Union Congress, talks about what rights we have already, and what more needs to be done.

Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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0:00.0

Okay, who's all in for cancer research UK's Race for Life?

0:03.4

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0:04.6

It's an obstacle course.

0:05.6

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0:22.7

Visit racefor-14.99.

0:22.7

Visit racefor-life.org.

0:25.0

Prices vary by event distance and participant age.

0:29.8

You know what you're getting with a conference?

0:34.2

Laptop backpacks.

0:36.6

Security Pass Lanyard

0:38.3

If you could just pop this on?

0:39.3

Being asked, how was your journey in?

0:41.3

How was your journey in?

0:42.3

An array of triangular sandwiches.

0:44.3

Hmm.

0:45.3

Having to deal with a small crisis back at the office.

0:51.3

Sometimes in life you just know what you're getting, like a great night's sleep and a tasty breakfast.

0:58.0

You know what you're getting the Premier Inn.

1:00.0

It seems like every day we hear a new story about artificial intelligence and how it's changing the world.

1:07.0

Like how AI can make your favourite artist sing a song by another artist, and it sounds just like them.

1:15.3

How AI is creating deep fake images of the Pope wearing a puffer jacket.

1:21.5

Or perhaps more seriously, how the phone and broadband company BT is predicting it will lay off over 10,000 people in the next decade

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