TECHNOLOGY
LEADING THE DISCUSSION AROUND AI In the global mobility realm – already facing the brave new world of relocating and transferring the next generation of tech talent and supporting companies moving to new tech-driven domains – the challenge is both one of people and practice. In significant ways, the Festival of Global People presaged this
message. The discussion was around how will what we do shift in line with what people and organisations need and the technology available to deliver this? Clearly, the extent of the challenge varies according to each
organisation’s rate of technology adoption and the type of work it does. Nevertheless, speaking at the CIPD Festival of Work, Mr McCargow believes that to steer leaders and organisations through the hype and reality of AI, HR has a vital role to play by “joining in and scrutinise, all the better to drive this hot topic forward.” Fellow CIPD Festival of Work speaker and panellist in this session, Dr Sally Eaves, wholeheartedly agrees; particularly
when it comes to selling the benefits of AI and making it work for people and societies in progressive ways. “This is all about agility, creative confidence and learning for life,” said Dr Eaves, for whom technological developments are all about people taking their own development and upskilling seriously, and following their passion with “pragmatism and purpose.” For Ms Boughey, the challenge is the same. That is, how to
bring technology and people together: Speaking at the Festival of Global People, she said, “We have to look to the future. This broadly is about talent planning: how do we find talent, where do we get it from and how technology will help us?”
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UK scheme to retrain workers ousted by AI
The UK government has launched a scheme aimed at helping retrain workers whose jobs are likely to become obsolete as a result of automation and AI.
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he National Retraining Scheme, which will be trialled initially in Liverpool, comes in the wake of a report last month from the research firm Oxford Economics, which estimated that up to 20 million manufacturing jobs worldwide could be replaced by robots by 2030.
INDUSTRIAL AND SERVICE SECTORS WILL LOSE JOBS Additionally, the report warned that those affected in the industrial sector would find similar problems in the service sector unless they were trained in new skills. It estimated that twice as many higher-skilled jobs would go for each low-level worker replaced by a robot. Education Secretary Damian Hinds, who said that while AI and automation were transforming the way Britons lived and worked, as well as delivering “huge benefits” to the economy, they would, inevitably, make some jobs a “thing of the past”.
NATIONAL RETRAINING SCHEME WILL HELP ADULTS GAIN NEW SKILLS He added, “The National Retraining Scheme will be pivotal in helping adults across the country whose jobs are at risk of changing, to gain new skills and get on the path to a new, more rewarding
career.This is a big and complex challenge, which is why we are starting small, learning as we go, and releasing each part of the scheme only when it’s ready to benefit its users.” Vinous Ali, head of policy at techUK, the body representing the nation’s tech industry, welcomed the government’s initiative. “It is right that the government is starting small to ensure lessons are learnt, and adaptations are made along the way, but the ambition to scale so that this becomes a truly national retraining scheme cannot be lost,” he told the BBC.
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BOOKS
• THE ROBOT-PROOF RECRUITER Katrina Cllier, Kogan Page
• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR HR: Use AI to Support and Develop a Successful Workforce Ben Eubanks, Kogan Page
• PREDICTION MACHINES: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence Ajay Agrawal, Josh Gans, Avi Goldfarbs Harvard Business Review Press
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