An International Labour Organization (ILO) report published in May found that around ‘one in four workers across the world are in an occupation with some degree of exposure’ to generative AI models’ capabilities. — AFP Relaxnews
Predictions of imminent AI-driven mass unemployment are likely overblown, but employers will seek workers with different skills as the technology matures, a top executive at global recruiter ManpowerGroup told AFP at Paris's Vivatech trade fair.
The world's third-largest staffing firm by revenue ran a startup contest at Vivatech in which one of the contenders was building systems to hire out customisable autonomous AI "agents", rather than humans.
