Mustafa Suleiman, co-founder of Google's AI giant DeepMind, expressed concern about the long-term impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market, highlighting its potential to replace human labor.
luck report Mustafa Suleiman, a prominent figure in the AI industry and co-founder of AI company DeepMind, recently shared his views on the future impact of AI, particularly on the labor market. Suleiman, who founded DeepMind with Demis Hassabis and Shane Legg in 2010 and later sold it to Google for £400m in 2014, spoke at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. I gave a lecture.
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Mr. Suleiman highlighted two main ways that AI will transform business. One is that it makes operations more efficient, leading to significant cost savings, but often at the cost of human employment, and the other is that it creates completely new, potentially job-creating projects. It is about enabling the creation of operations and processes. But he warned that these changes would cause significant disruption to the labor market in the coming years, and that the long-term impact remains uncertain.
“In the long run…we have to think very seriously about how we integrate these tools, because they are completely up to the market and their own devices, and basically It's a tool to replace labor,” Suleiman told CNBC.
Discussions about the role of AI in the job market are not new. Some experts, such as Karl Benedict Frey and Michael Osborne, are sounding the alarm by publishing research that suggests the high risks of job automation. For example, their 2013 study estimated that 47% of US jobs could be automated by the mid-2030s. Conversely, other studies, such as his 2022 report from the United Nations' International Labor Organization, suggest that AI is more likely to complement human workers rather than replace them. It has been.
Suleiman also commented on the problem of “hallucinations” in generative AI systems, where AI exaggerates or fabricates facts, which he said poses further challenges. This is because his MIT professor Daron Acemoglu, who predicted in 2024 that AI will have mixed impacts, potentially job losses, but no significant productivity gains, and others. This is consistent with the concerns raised by experts.
“Generative AI is a great technology and offers a huge opportunity to improve productivity for many tasks. But the hype is so far ahead of the reality that the technology setbacks of 2024 are more likely to be remembered. ,” Acemoglu wrote.
Suleiman emphasized the transformative potential of AI, but cautioned against overly optimistic short-term expectations for productivity gains. He emphasized the need to carefully integrate AI tools into the economy, taking into account their ability to replace labor and their broader impact on society.
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