Some 7,800 human jobs could be replaced in the coming years by AI programs, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told Bloomberg.
Technology giant IBM plans to stop hiring people to fill thousands of roles in the coming years that the company believes artificial intelligence can handle, CEO Arvind Krishna toldVisitors crowd the IBM stand at the 2009 CeBIT technology trade fair on March 3, 2009 in Hanover,Krishna said in an interview he believes around 30% of about 26,000 non-customer-facing positions, like human resources jobs, could be replaced by AI over a five-year period—amounting to about 7,800 lost jobs.
HR duties like documenting employee moves to different departments and writing employment verification letters will likely be among the first rolled over to AI, Krishna told Bloomberg. Jobs focused on interacting with customers and developing software at the 260,000-worker strong company should not be impacted in coming years, according to Krishna.IBM did not respond to a request for comment from300 million. That’s how many jobs could be threatened in the U.S. and Europe in coming years if “generative AI delivers on its promised capabilities,” according to a recent Goldman Sachs
. The report found two-thirds of jobs are at risk due to AI automation, while AI could have the capability of directly accomplishing up to one-fourth of current work.Predictions of a future where robots widely replace human workers have long existed, but the recent emergence ofhave prompted concerns that societal reckoning with AI’s role in the world may be imminent or already underway.
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