Generative AI set to shake up job market, create new opportunities

Distinguished speakers: (From left) Bigar, Lian, Yap, Danze and Brewer after providing insights on the impact of AI on the job market. They were speaking at an event organised by Star Media Group.

PETALING JAYA: The advent of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is set to replace or make some jobs obsolete, but it could also mean new job opportunities in other areas.

Speakers in a forum organised by Star Media Group Bhd’s Leaders Council Power Breakfast yesterday said that there were pertinent concerns among the incoming workforce, who are mostly students now, about potential job losses from the wider adoption of generative AI, which is a much more advanced form of AI.The forum was titled “Shaping the Digital Future of Malaysia”.