Ensuring Automation Enriches the Human Experience

This webinar hosted by the Financial Times, in partnership with Schroders, is the first in the Business Book of the Year Webinar Series. These live webinars will highlight the freshest ideas and boldest thinkers in the important topic areas covered by the longlisted and shortlisted books.

Computers, the internet and now AI - every major technological advance brings with it the fear of job losses and widening socioeconomic gaps. Transformative change always highlights the tension between the commercial potential of new technologies and the need to ensure that exciting new tools also enhance the experience of workers and consumers. With AI predicted to see an annual growth rate of 37.3% from 2023 to 2030, this tension is only likely to increase.

The economic applications of automation are vast, allowing businesses to complete tasks quicker and with more accuracy than if they were handled by human workers, who should be freed to carry out more complex, interesting jobs. AI also promises to have a transformative impact on healthcare and the fight against climate change. For example, it can enable the review and analysis of mammograms 3000% faster with 99% accuracy. Is it enough, however, to assume that technology equals progress? What safeguards and policies are necessary to ensure that these new technologies enrich society? How can policymakers and business leaders ensure that their rapid proliferation doesn’t create more problems than it solves?

This webinar will explore how technological change affects the human experience and how to make sure that everyone shares in the benefits of progress.

Cross sector collaboration

How important is cross sector collaboration going to be in ensuring that AI’s potential applications are realised across business and society?

Automation

What do organisations need to do to ensure that automation enhances the quality of jobs rather than destroying it? 

Implementing AI tools

What lessons can be learnt by society from the major technological advances of the past as it works to implement AI and other fast--moving new technologies successfully? 

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