It will not come as a surprise that the World Economic Forum, in its latest study, found that companies worldwide expect significant reductions in workforce:
“Advances in AI and renewable energy are reshaping the (labor) market — driving an increase in demand for many technology or specialist roles while driving a decline for others, such as graphic designers,” the WEF said in a press release ahead of its annual meeting in Davos later this month.
On the flip side, demand for “AI skills” keeps rising—note that this doesn’t necessarily mean people programming AIs, but rather people who are able to work alongside AIs in a human-machine augmented fashion.
Time to polish those computer skills…
