Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered Plc, predicted thousands of job losses due to AI, while JPMorgan Chase & Co, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, and JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon also voiced similar sentiments. The acceleration of AI deployment comes amid public anxiety over its impact.
The acceleration of AI deployment comes amid widening public anxiety over the technology’s impact. — Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash Standard Chartered Plc chief executive officer Bill Winters delivered a blunt message on the future of the bank’s workforce, warning that a push into artificial intelligence will eliminate thousands of roles as the lender replaces"lower-value human capital ” with technology.
The bank on Tuesday unveiled a plan to cut more than 15% of its support staff by 2030 through building up its use of AI to streamline operations. It employed about 52,000 people in such roles at the end of last year, with a footprint spanning India, China, Poland, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
"It’s not cost cutting; it’s replacing in some cases lower-value human capital with the financial capital and the investment capital we’re putting in,” Winters said at a briefing in Hong Kong on Tuesday, adding that affected staff would receive"good clear notice” ahead of time. "We don’t have job losses, but we do have job role reductions in favour of the machines, and that will accelerate as we go forward into AI,” he said.
Winters’ remarks echo a growing candour among global financial leaders regarding the realities of automation, shifting away from previous narratives that framed AI purely as a tool to augment, rather than replace, human workers. JPMorgan Chase & Co CEO Jamie Dimon has compared AI’s disruptive potential to the invention of the steam engine, saying last year that the bank’s annual savings from the technology now equal its yearly AI expenditures.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc president and chief operating officer John Waldron recently described portions of the firm’s traditional operations as a"human assembly line” prime for automation. The acceleration of AI deployment comes amid widening public anxiety over the technology’s impact. In the US, half of adults report being more concerned than excited about AI’s proliferation, according to data from Pew Research Center study, while local opposition to the construction of power-hungry data centres has intensified.
The banking sector’s rapid adoption of advanced systems is also drawing scrutiny from global regulators. Wall Street firms have begun internally experimenting with Anthropic PBC’s Mythos model, a move encouraged by US administration officials to help detect digital vulnerabilities. Officials warn that the widespread integration of AI has simultaneously armed bad actors, making a new breed of sophisticated cyberattacks one of the most critical systemic risks facing the global financial industry. – Bloomberg
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