- Business leaders admit to secretly using tools like ChatGPT to accomplish tasks
- Employees are being sent to AI bootcamps amid warnings that eight million jobs are at risk
- Research among 600 CEOs worldwide shows that almost half believe they too are in danger
Even your boss is afraid that AI could steal their job.
Hundreds of top executives fear that technology will one day take over their roles.
Many admit that they are already secretly using tools like ChatGPT to help them carry out their daily responsibilities – and pass off the work as their own.
The finding comes just weeks after a leading think tank warned that AI could take over eight million jobs in Britain.
According to a report from AND Digital, corporate bosses are rushing to send “entry-level” staff to AI bootcamps to get them up to speed.
Hundreds of CEOs fear that AI will one day take over their roles, a survey has found
The survey of 600 business leaders found that three-quarters were reskilling their employees in an effort to help them adapt to technology rather than replace them.
AI experts predict that machines could take over all our jobs within a century.
But while the “job apocalypse” is expected to primarily automate admin and entry-level roles, it will increasingly impact the higher-paid as AI becomes more sophisticated.
Nearly half (43 percent) of bosses surveyed admitted that they too were concerned that AI could steal their jobs.
While 45 percent said they were already secretly using AI tools for various tasks and passing it off as their own work.
This is despite the fact that one in three employees prohibits the use of chatbots in their organization.
The report from AND DigitalAn independent survey by Censuswide found that 44 percent of CEOs worldwide did not think their workforce was ready to handle AI.
Bosses admit to using tools like ChatGPT – and passing off the work as their own.
Stephen Paterson, head of technology and people at the tech company, said: “CEOs cannot afford to be complacent when it comes to AI.
‘They too cannot allow a culture of fear and distrust around new technologies to take hold, so retraining people and teams across all departments to the highest standards should be an absolute top priority.’
‘It’s important for business leaders to establish a well-designed framework around AI to maximize value and mitigate risk, giving people the guidance and tools to innovate safely.
“If they don’t do this, they will fall behind the competition and lag behind peers who have the AI skills to lead the new wave of technological innovation.”
Other business leaders have highlighted the need to upgrade the skills of their employees as “AI continues to shake up traditional work models.”
Libero Raspa, director of IT consultancy Adesso UK, said: ‘. It is here to stay, and forward-thinking companies will now lay the foundation to ensure staff are fully equipped to embrace and deploy it ethically, and increase accountability for maximum customer impact.”
Experts are divided on the effect AI will have on the global labor market, but all agree that it will have, and is already having, a seismic impact.
BT last year unveiled plans to cut tens of thousands of jobs by 2030, with around 10,000 of those to be replaced by technology.
A survey of more than 2,700 AI researchers in January found that by 2116, AI could be “better and cheaper” than humans in every profession.
The date prediction is almost 50 years earlier than the same prediction from the previous year, highlighting how quickly the situation is improving.
A report from the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) last month suggested that younger, lower-paid and female workers were likely to be hit first.
But this would increasingly impact higher incomes, it emerged, with 7.9 million jobs created in the ‘worst case scenario’ if the government does not intervene.
