AI adoption: the main threat isn't unemployment but the loss of expertise
Tom Slater, manager of the Scottish investment fund Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, has published a provocative study. His argument: AI threatens not so much jobs as people's capacity to learn, analyze and think critically. Automated systems will look more productive while concealing a gradual erosion of expertise. That creates a long-term risk to the quality of management decisions.
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Tom Slater, an investment fund manager at Baillie Gifford (Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust), has published a study showing that the main threat of AI adoption is not a wave of unemployment but people gradually losing the ability to learn, analyze independently and make decisions.
What is the main threat of AI adoption in people's work?
According to investor Tom Slater, it is not unemployment but the loss of the ability to learn independently, analyze and make well-considered decisions.
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