Posted 1/21/2024, 9:33:31 PM
CEOs Buzz with Excitement Over AI Promise as Workers Anxiety Grows
- Generative AI (gen AI) was the hottest topic at the 2024 Davos meeting, with rapid adoption across regions, industries, and roles
- Research shows a gap between CEO enthusiasm about gen AI benefits and employee anxieties about job loss
- Gen AI promises massive productivity gains but historically such gains have benefited companies over workers
- Adoption of gen AI requires rethinking job-centric models towards skill-centric ones and redesigning work
- Ensuring an equitable future of work with gen AI requires balancing economics and empathy to ready the workforce