Advances in AI and robotics will dramatically change our lives over the next few decades.
Greater automation will affect not just how we work but if we work at all.
And the use of artificial intelligence is revolutionising how companies hire and fire, monitor staff performance and make commercial decisions.
Few will be exempt from these changes.
Whether it is driverless cars, facial recognition or shops without checkout assistants the world around us is changing fast.
In the latest Ayes to the Left podcast Labour’s Tom Watson tells the Mirror’s Jason Beattie that unless the government acts then millions of people could lose their jobs.
He also discusses the need for greater regulation to protect people from surveillance and how big data has become a precious commodity in the hands of few global companies.
Far from being pessimistic, Watson says we cannot be Luddites about the changes taking place and points to how AI has benefits for medical research and healthcare.
But he warns it will require a major investment in skills and education to ensure nobody is left behind by the revolution taking place. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy

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