Barack Obama on AI: Former US President Warns Artificial Intelligence Can Cause Mass Unemployment of Highly Skilled Workers, Says It Can Already Code 60–70% Better Than Programmers
The Former US President Barack Obama warned that AI (artificial intelligence) could lead to mass unemployment, especially of the highly skilled workers. He said it already started coding 60–70% better than programmers.
Barack Obama, the 44th US President, hinted that AI may cause mass unemployment worldwide as it has already started coding 60-70% better than programmers. The former US President said, "To some degree, it's an extension of this long trend towards automation..." Obama said that artificial intelligence already started performing a high level of intellectual work. He said that AI coding could affect highly skilled programmers with high salaries, and it may duplicate it across other professions. Barack Obama said that factory as well as blue-collar workers must find alternate jobs to earn enough income to feed their families. Mechanize: Tamay Besiroglu, Founder of Epoch, Starts New Company To Fully Automate Work and Economy Amid Threat of AI Taking Away Millions of Jobs.
AI To Cause Mass Unemployment, Hinted Former US President Barack Obama
Barack Obama says AI isn't just disrupting coders -- it’s disrupting meaning
“Already, AI can code better than 60–70% of programmers. A lot of that work is going to go away.”
When high-skill work is automated, it's not just the experts who need to adapt. Where does purpose come… pic.twitter.com/fxWWMIdoLV
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