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AI ethics gets short shrift among employers: OECD
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AI ethics gets short shrift among employers: OECD

[ad_1] Despite increasing concerns about the ethical risks posed by rapidly developing AI applications, employers are paying little attention to the issue in recruiting, an OECD study said Monday.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development searched online job offers for AI posts in 14 countries. We are now on WhatsApp. Click to join. It found that while the percentage including keywords relating to ethics had increased sharply in the past four years, it still remained very low at an average of 0.4 percent in 2022."Results indicate that in the majority of countries, less than 1 percent of all vacancies mentioned keywords associated with AI ethics," the OECD said in its annual job skills report.In the United States in 2019 only 0.1 percent of all online job postings for AI ...
27% of jobs at high risk from AI revolution, says OECD
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27% of jobs at high risk from AI revolution, says OECD

[ad_1] More than a quarter of jobs in the OECD rely on skills that could be easily automated in the coming artificial intelligence revolution, and workers fear they could lose their jobs to AI, the OECD said on Tuesday.The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a 38-member bloc, spanning mostly wealthy nations but also some emerging economies like Mexico and Estonia. There is little evidence the emergence of AI is having a significant impact on jobs so far, but that may be because the revolution is in its early stages, the OECD said. Jobs with the highest risk of being automated make up 27% of the labor force on average in OECD countries, with eastern European countries most exposed, the Paris-based organization said in its 2023 Employment Outlook.Jobs at highe...