Six in ten people think AI will destroy more jobs than it creates. FE colleges are the ones being asked to fix that.
New King's College London research finds seven in ten workers are worried about AI's economic impact, and nearly six in ten believe it could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs within five years. The government's answer is AI skills training through further education. The funding to deliver it has been cut.
By Wistl newsroom · · FE / Training
Seven in ten UK workers are worried about the economic impact of AI job losses. Six in ten think AI will lead to wider inequality. Half believe its impact will be worse than a normal recession. One in five think it will create civil unrest. These are the findings of a major new tracker on public attitudes to AI and the future of work, published by King's College London's Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Policy Institute recently and launched at the King's AI Summit: Workforce Futures. The full research is available at kcl.ac.uk. Four groups of people were canvassed in the study; 2,000