Duyi Xu (China)
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Issue Theme/Column:
Artificial Intelligence
What do you think about AI? People seem to be either
excited or worried about it. Personally, I can understand
these two ideas, but I tend to worry about how it should
affect employment.
The latest amazing system, named Sora, from OpenAI, is a
system that can generate video according to instructions.
Some people can’t help but worry whether AI will replace
the acting industry in the future. In fact, this kind of concern
isn't new.
Since the 1960s, people have started to explore the road of
AI customer service. You know, there are 1 million people
working in customer service in the Philippines alone! We
can predict that if AI completely replaces customer service,
how many people will lose their livelihoods?
How will the people whose jobs are taken away by AI make
a living? It’s a big issue. And how to create more jobs suited
to the people who haven't received high education to fill the
gap in the work that AI replaces. This is a problem that
human beings must consider and solve urgently while trying
to develop AI high technology.