AI and our tasks
Yassamine Mather examines the many problems posed for the workers’ movement by artificial intelligence
According to the World Economic Forum (WEF), “a new generation of smart machines, fuelled by rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, could potentially replace a large proportion of existing human jobs”.
1 Robotics and AI will cause a serious “double disruption”, as the coronavirus pandemic pushed companies to fast-track the deployment of new technologies to slash costs, enhance productivity and be less reliant on real-life people.
We all know about massive job losses caused by the effects of Covid-19. However, the predictions for the next few years are alarming. The WEF estimates that currently approximately 30% of all tasks are done by machines - and, of course, humans do the other 70%. But by the year 2025 this balance will dramatically change to a 50-50 combination of humans and machines. According to PricewaterhouseCoopers, “
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In 2020, most universities had to resort to virtual classes because of the Covid-19 pandemic. Anton Shuvalov unsplash/AFP
In 2020, several new educational practices saw the light of day, outlining a possible blueprint for tomorrow s education. Multimedia content and gamification became teaching tools and could well become the norm in 2021. I wrote my probability exam online, but then I had a scanner problem. I was two minutes late to hand in my paper and it wasn t accepted, said Oussama, a student in mathematics at the University of Rennes 2, France. In 2020, many exams had to be taken online because of the pandemic, and most classes during the year meant days spent in front of a computer. While these virtual teaching methods were implemented in high schools and universities at the last minute to make up for closed institutions during lockdowns, they may well become the norm in the coming months.
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