Overview
- IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said AI will displace about 5% to 10% of current work and urged hiring plans that use the tech to speed junior employees’ training.
- A UC Berkeley field study and worker accounts find AI fills saved time with new tasks, which increases multitasking and mental fatigue.
- Goldman Sachs reports AI reduced U.S. monthly job growth by about 16,000 last year and lifted unemployment by roughly 0.1 percentage point.
- A survey by NTT DATA and CIONET shows 59% of companies run isolated pilots and only 3.8% have scaled AI, citing weak leadership, thin budgets and poor governance.
- The U.S. Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) reached deals with Google DeepMind, Microsoft and xAI to review new models before release to check safety and cyber risks.