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🗓️ 21 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba is Representative Director, President and CEO of Recruit Holdings. He previously served as Executive Vice President, COO overseeing the company’s business operations and was appointed as a Director in 2019.
Deko has led the digital transformation of the Company’s numerous businesses including Jalan, travel service and Hot Pepper Beauty, beauty salon reservation service. He was responsible for transitioning print publications and marketing into online businesses, and making online booking common in the Japan market. In his previous role as Senior Vice President, he led the acquisition of Indeed and later served as CEO & President of Indeed, transforming the Company into the leading global HR technology company it is today.
Hisayuki "Deko" Idekoba joins 'Forbes Newsroom' to talk about AI's impact on the job market and how workforces may shift in the future.
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0:00.0 | Hi everybody I'm Diane Brady. I'm here with Deco who is the CEO of Recruit Holdings, |
0:07.0 | Glass Door and indeed we were in AI House, which of course I think nothing embodies the chaos and the enthusiasm for AI like |
0:15.3 | standing where we're standing what what do you think about this it's been the big |
0:19.5 | theme at Davos this year yeah of course like that last like 18 month or 12 month like the AI thing is becoming to be more real and |
0:29.3 | Of course I'm excited as a one technologist but you know when we actually think about even 20 years ago |
0:39.2 | people are so excited about internet but you know I still think it takes time because we need to |
0:46.1 | keep training AI model to be more like a realistic you know that support for the real society or real execution of the society. |
0:58.0 | So it's, it will, you know, like change a lot of like our our life yeah but it just takes time I |
1:09.0 | Suspect are you talking about what it's going to do to jobs because when you think about there's some |
1:14.9 | excitement maybe when it comes to displacing humans and jobs that's where the fear |
1:20.3 | factor comes in so you think we're just sort of |
1:23.4 | overestimating the fear factor right now? Is that what it is that you think |
1:28.4 | we're too much height? Yeah, you know, our research is showing AI will affect almost all job seekers or all workers, of course. |
1:40.0 | But the important thing is it's going to be very difficult to fully |
1:46.0 | liberate human being taught. |
1:49.1 | And one example I like is, OK advanced AI somebody built three automated airline you know I will |
2:00.5 | not fly a fully automated airline can I point that out? |
2:03.2 | Yeah. Can we just have one pilot at this just in case? |
2:07.2 | I think that's the situation we're seeing. |
2:10.5 | What I'm seeing is like of course we have a lot of data we are trying to build a lot of |
2:17.2 | AI function to sometimes automate procedures of hiring or to support human being be hooders. |
2:27.0 | But what we are actually thinking is probably we're going to need a human being aspect to finally check or to decide the hiring. |
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