{"id":98945,"date":"2019-11-23T13:23:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ai-and-the-future-of-work-the-economic-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2019-11-23T13:23:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T21:23:21","slug":"ai-and-the-future-of-work-the-economic-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/ai-and-the-future-of-work-the-economic-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"AI and the Future of Work: The Economic Impacts of Artificial Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-and-the-future-of-work-the-economic-impacts-of-artificial-intelligence.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week at MIT, academics and industry officials compared notes, studies, and predictions about AI and the future of work. During the discussions, an insurance company executive shared details about one AI program that rolled out at his firm earlier this year. A chatbot the company introduced, the executive said, now handles 150,000 calls per month.<\/p>\n<p>Later in the day, a panelist\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/about-us\/executive-producer-david-fannin\/\">David Fanning<\/a>, founder of PBS\u2019s <em>Frontline<\/em>\u2014remarked that this statistic is emblematic of broader fears he saw when reporting a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/frontline\/film\/in-the-age-of-ai\/\"><em>Frontline<\/em> documentary about AI<\/a>. \u201cPeople are scared,\u201d Fanning said of the public\u2019s AI anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Fanning was part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/workofthefuturecongress.mit.edu\/\">daylong symposium<\/a> about AI\u2019s economic consequences\u2014good, bad, and otherwise\u2014 convened by <a href=\"https:\/\/workofthefuture.mit.edu\/\">MIT\u2019s Task Force on the Work of the Future<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week at MIT, academics and industry officials compared notes, studies, and predictions about AI and the future of work. During the discussions, an insurance company executive shared details about one AI program that rolled out at his firm earlier this year. A chatbot the company introduced, the executive said, now handles 150,000 calls per [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}