TECH - Mark Zuckerberg On The Biggest Question Everyone's Thinking About: Will AI Take Away Jobs? | Benzinga
Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has tried to answer one of the biggest questions on everyone's minds: will AI take away jobs?
What Happened: One of the biggest concerns sparked by the rapid rise of artificial intelligence (AI) in every facet of our lives is its potential impact on the livelihoods of white-collar employees.
While the question might be difficult to tackle, Zuckerberg is one of the better people out there to answer it given Meta is amongst the leading companies working on creating the next generation of AI technologies. Its latest large language mode, Llama 2, is open source and free to use.
So, if you are an average white-collar employee, like a customer service representative or an accountant, is your job under threat and should you pivot to an AI-aided field?
Zuckerberg says he's not sure if it's time to make the pivot yet, but he is also optimistic that AI will positively impact people's lives.
"Over the long term, I'm actually quite bullish ...