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Nicholas Davis

Key workers left as invisible bystanders to the AI revolution

A hype-driven, tech-led approach to AI adoption will harm workers, disappoint investors and damage the economy, we must listen and learn from workers at the coalface, writes Professor Nicholas Davis.

At the recent Australian Financial Review AI Summit, Suncorp’s Adam Bennett argued that a shortfall of skills was the biggest barrier to realising the productivity benefits of AI.

Meanwhile, Quantium CEO Adam Driussi warned that a third of executives could lose their jobs in the next two years, especially those who “don’t embrace AI, and don’t think about how they change their jobs and how they lead their organisations to embrace AI.”

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Professor Nicholas Davis is the co-director of the Human Technology Institute at the University of Technology Sydney.

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    Original URL: https://www.afr.com/technology/key-workers-left-as-invisible-bystanders-to-the-ai-revolution-20240530-p5ji19