Will AI Take My Job? Bosses Shouldn’t Only Consider Bottom Line, Says Expert
Five Minutes with Quantitative Futurist Amy Webb on the future of AI, how businesses can leverage the technology, and whether workers should be cowering under their desks.
Amy Webb, chief executive officer of the Future Today Institute, speaks during the South by Southwest (SXSW) Sydney festival on Monday, Oct. 16, 2023.
Photographer: Brent Lewin/BloombergThe 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.