Research shows that artificial intelligence is likely to disrupt the global workforce. Mark Cuban believes the jobs affected will be those that require simple yes-or-no decisions. Cuban told BI that the impact on a company’s workforce will depend on how well AI is implemented.
Billionaire Mark Cuban doesn’t think artificial intelligence will disrupt white-collar jobs.
In an interview on “The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart” published Thursday, Cuban said he believes rapidly advancing technology won’t affect jobs that require workers to think. he said.
“So if your job is always answering ‘yes or no’ questions, AI is going to have an impact,” he says. “If your job requires you to think, AI won’t have a big impact.”
Cuban, CEO of Cost Plus Drugs, which provides online prescription services, said employees oversee the AI and ensure that the data used to train the model and its resulting output are correct. said it is necessary to do so.
“It takes intellectual capacity. So someone who knows what the goal is, someone who’s been doing this for years, has to be able to input feedback on everything that the model collects and trains. “Hmm,” he says. “We don’t need to simply assume that the model knows everything. We want someone to check it, score the answers, and make corrections.”
Recent advances in AI are raising existential questions about the future of work.
The World Economic Forum reported in 2023 that employers expect 44% of workers’ skills to be “destroyed” within five years, requiring significant efforts to retrain workers.
However, a McKinsey study found that white-collar roles such as legal and finance will not disappear due to AI. Instead, AI could enhance these jobs in the long run by automating about 30% of total U.S. work hours.
Cuban told Business Insider in an email that the impact of AI on a company’s workforce will be on a case-by-case basis.
“Every company is different,” he said. “But the biggest determining factor is how well companies can implement AI.”
