“I want to level with the public. Some jobs will go.” In any other era, these words, from a Cabinet Minister (in this case from Secretary for Science, Innovation Technology Liz Kendall) would be front page news. But such is the pace of technological change in the AI era that they barely made a dent.
Indeed, they’re hot on the heels of a report from the World Economic Forum at Davos that, alongside some optimism, the majority of the business community thinks that AI will displace a large number of existing jobs.
