What We Do With AI Is A Choice

January 24, 2019

Jacob Morgan

Bestselling Author, Keynote Speaker, and Futurist

AI and Automation doesn't have to create the job apocalypse that some people are worried about. We have a choice to make -- will AI replace your workers or will it augment them?

Listen to the podcast minisode here.

I have heard both sides of the AI and Automation debate over the past few years. Some people think that our future is doom and gloom and that all human jobs will be replaced. Others feel more optimistic about the subject and they are excited to see how AI and Automation can augment human workers to do their jobs better.

One of my recent podcast guests was Tim O'Reilly, the Founder and CEO at O'Reilly Media and Author of WTF: What's the Future and Why It's Up To Us. During my interview with Tim, he brought up a really interesting point about AI and Automation and jobs. He believes that what we do with AI is a choice. We can choose to design our organizations in a way that allows AI to replace all the human jobs, or we can change our business model to figure out how AI can effectively augment human jobs.

There are many current companies who have examples of how to use AI without eliminating jobs, Amazon is one great example of how this model can work. So, it's up to you. Will you choose to let AI take over human jobs or will you choose to find a way to have AI augment them?

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