ARTIFICIAL intelligence (AI) won’t take your job, economist Richard Baldwin told the World Economic Forum’s Growth Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, recently, but his next sentence wasn’t so reassuring – it’s somebody using AI who will take your job. He’s right, of course, at least for the time being. Now that generative AI, such as ChatGPT, can perform many intellectual tasks to a considerable level of speed and competency, it is no wonder that human jobs are considered at risk.
However, AI is not infallible – just ask lawyer Peter LoDuca, who learned this the hard way when he was representing a client who was suing Avianca Airlines in a New York federal court, claiming injuries from being hit by a cart during a 2019 flight.
