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P.S. If you love this AI stuff just like me, I write all about the latest AI developments in my newsletter. A blog post published back in July showed a study that got underway to see how the UK imparticular, felt about AI taking over their jobs. How worried were they? A study made by Aquity did just that, they gathered together just over 2000 people to get them to answer a questionnaire about how worried they were about AI taking over their jobs. But for this questionnaire to be accurate everyone had to have a job, so that cut the group down to 1,332 people. Of those 1,332 people, Here's how they answered, "how worried are you about AI taking over your job:" So 31.16% of people in the UK are worried about AI taking their jobs. 37.39% have used AI in their job. But Acuity found massive differences by age Essentially, the younger an employee is, the likelier they are to have used AI at work. Of those aged 16 – 24 with jobs, over half of them have now used AI at work (56.04%). There are regional variations in AI usage at work as well. Acuity said, "We can hypothesise on some of these variations being down to the demographics of the people living and working in those regions or even on the prominence of industries where AI may have more obvious direct use cases."
At the highest usage end of the spectrum 47.90% of employed people in London have used AI in their jobs. It falls as low as 29.84% in the East of England. across all UK respondents who work, just 31.3% reported being worried about AI taking their job. But we again see considerable differences when we break the data down by age. You know what's interesting? The youngest workers, those between 16 and 24, worry the most about AI stealing their jobs. What's even more intriguing is that these are the folks who use AI the most at work. As AI becomes a big part of our jobs, it looks like more people will use them. And that might mean more people feeling uneasy about losing their jobs to AI In a nutshell, the young workers, even though they're pretty familiar with using AI, still feel pretty nervous about these machines taking over jobs (In the UK anyway). And it seems like that worry might grow as AI becomes a bigger deal at work and especially as we are coming into 2024. Source: (Aquity Training) Finally, here is how the world on a global scale feels about AI: And here's what countries find AI to show more benefits than drawbacks: What do you guys think? [link] [comments] |
Predictive technology: computational social science
