Will AI take my job? Bosses shouldn’t only consider bottom line, says expert

“People ask, ‘is AI taking my job? Or taking a bunch of jobs?’ But nobody’s asking what would it take for that to be true,” Webb said. — Photo by Possessed Photography on Unsplash

The meteoric rise of AI has catapulted the world into uncharted territory. That’s good news for futurists like Amy Webb, who studies emerging technologies and uses quantitative and qualitative modeling to forecast how they’ll impact business and society.

As founder and CEO of the Future Today Institute, Webb has been grappling with AI and all its concomitant fears, from end-of-humanity doomsday scenarios to market flash crashes and jobs destruction.