Other Jobs Safe… For Now
While those in the AI industry might now be feeling a little on edge, Li suggested that we are decades off from a time when there will be widespread job losses thanks to AI deployment.
Echoing statements he made at the VivaTech conference in Paris in May, Li insists we are 10 to 30 years away from AI being smarter than humans and, therefore, human jobs could be displaced. This is in contrast to the ever-optimistic Elon Musk, who says we are just two years off.
While Li is suggesting there won’t be seismic changes for a while, he did, however, encourage preparedness. “Companies, organizations, governments and ordinary people all need to prepare for that kind of paradigm shift,” he warned.