Digital dementia | As AI does the heavy lifting, we must ask ourselves if it will ruin our brains

A now-famous report from Goldman Sachs on the impact AI is likely to have on the working world revealed some eyebrow-raising facts.

The March 2023 study said that AI is capable of doing a quarter of the work currently done by humans, and this super-powerful technology could replace the equivalent of 300million jobs.

The research was met with concern from most, but many experts rushed to the defense of AI, saying that people shouldn’t fear the integration of it into the workplace, as it would serve to augment modern roles, as opposed to getting rid of jobs altogether. In this sense, the experts explained, AI would take on the ‘heavy lifting’ required of a role, leaving more ‘fun’ or creative tasks to humans.

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In the HR Grapevine podcast, technology expert and influencer Bernard Marr suggests that AI will serve humans, making our everyday jobs easier, more efficient, and more accurate. He says: “We need to figure out how we can split our jobs into tasks that robots and AI can do effectively, and tasks that we can do effectively. I don’t think we will have millions of people unemployed because of AI; I’m seeing that most of our jobs will be changed by AI.”