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Shopify’s CEO is telling employees to prove artificial intelligence can’t do a job before hiring more people. FOX 5’s Antwan Lewis speaks to experts and educators about what this means for the future of work, and how fast AI may disrupt the job market.
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It's another sign that AI could soon be taking over more and more of our jobs
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That's right. The CEO of one popular e-commerce company telling employees that in order to hire
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more people, they have to prove that their needs cannot be fulfilled with AI
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All right. Fox News, Antoine Lewis takes a closer look into how soon this could become the norm
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He said, you know, if you want to hire more people, first show me that I can't do it through
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some kind of automation. Lance Ulanoff, editor at large for TechRadar, weighs in on Shopify CEO Tobias Letka's recent email to his employees
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asking them to explain why their jobs cannot be done by artificial intelligence
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before asking for more resources. Yulinov says it could be a sign of things to come depending upon the industry
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Anything kind of creative accounting, a lot of business stuff where, you know, you're creating reports
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While the emergence of chat GPT and other business software is designed to offer a high-tech assist to the workplace, Pace University philosophy professor James Brousseau is among those cautiously playing nice
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Brousseau has introduced the caffeinated professor, an AI teaching assistant he launched last fall in his business ethics class to help students taking the course
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Brousseau says the caffeinated professor has been a hit with students, but there are disadvantages
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One is a personal disadvantage. That is I wonder whether or not I could be replaced by my own avatar And then there also a second question which is to what degree can we really hope that this avatar effectively achieves communication with the students which is at
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my level, which is at the human level? Pew Research Center reports that in 2022
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19% of American workers were in job industries using AI, 24% of Asian workers and 20% of white
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workers in those jobs the ones mostly impacted. This as opposed to Black and Latino workers
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at 15 and 13 percent, respectively. Numbers that experts believe will continue to climb
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The difference with AI is that it's happening so fast, we almost don't have time to retrain
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our workforce about how to work with it and not feel like they're losing their jobs to AI
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The question we have, and we don't know the answer to this yet, is will the machine finally
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be able to replace us completely or will it always be a kind of secondary aid? And we just don't know
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the answer to that yet. From the Upper East Side, Antoine Lewis, Fox 5 News. A new report says Open
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AI is working on a social media network similar to X. Open AI, the parent company of artificial
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intelligence assistant, ChatGPT. The report by The Verge says the plan is still in early development
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but a preliminary model may include ChatGPT's image generation with a social feed. It's unclear
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whether OpenAI would release the new social media network as an app or add it into ChatGBT
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