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TUC warning | Half of UK workers fear AI will take their jobs - what happens next?

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Over half of UK adults (51%) are worried about the impact of artificial intelligence on their jobs, according to a recent poll from the Trades Union Congress (TUC).

This rather bleak survey finding probably didn’t escape your attention when it did the rounds on LinkedIn last week. It confirms what most of us probably already suspected:

  1. Yes, artificial intelligence has the potential to make us more productive and take away the menial parts of our jobs that we don’t enjoy anyway

  2. No, that doesn’t mean all employees will benefit, and many of us are rightly fearful about how this shift change will tangibly impact real people, jobs, and careers

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