Arvind Krishna said in an interview with “Bloomberg” that his company will issue a decision to temporarily halt hiring in back offices, indicating that it is possible to lay off 7,800 jobs over several years.
Crencha added that those companies that don’t require direct customer interaction are manned by about “about 26,000 employees”, noting that “I can easily see 30% of them being replaced over five years by intelligence artificial intelligence and automated work”.
The Bloomberg report says administrative office workers make up just a small portion of IBM’s roughly 260,000 employees, and the company has continued to hire in some areas even after laying off about 5,000 people in others. sectors.
But in a statement to AFP on Tuesday, an IBM spokesperson warned that there were currently no temporary hiring halts at the Armonk, New York-based company.
“We are very selective when hiring in areas that don’t directly affect our customers or our technology,” he added.
The development of artificial intelligence that has emerged in applications such as “GBT Chat” has made it easier to perform less complex jobs, such as certain human resources tasks, data management and other repetitive operations.
A study conducted by Goldman Sachs in March indicated that up to 300 million jobs could be lost due to artificial intelligence.
But despite the shock caused by the release of “GPT Chat” to the world late last year, the technology developed by “OpenEy” with the support of Microsoft is prone to errors, which has prompted companies to not only use it for simple tasks now.
And on Monday, Jeffrey Hinton, who can be considered the spiritual father of artificial intelligence, announced his departure from Google’s artificial intelligence research team, and he criticized Microsoft for its quick decision to return GPT. Chat accessible to people.
Hinton said competition among tech giants is pushing them to launch new AI technologies at breakneck speed, threatening jobs and posing a threat to society.
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