Extract from Wales Assembly debate on national school workforce plan - April 18
Thursday, 19 April 2018 07:48
Lee Waters AM:...I'd like to make a brief intervention to highlight
the role technology can have in helping us to develop a robust
workforce plan for the future. Only today, the news has been
reported of one in three jobs in Wales being at risk from
automation by the early 2030s, and that analysis shows that jobs
with routine and repetitive tasks, many of which will be able to be
replaced by algorithms and by Artificial...Request free trial
AM:...I'd
like to make a brief intervention to highlight the role
technology can have in helping us to develop a robust
workforce plan for the future. Only today, the news has
been reported of one in three jobs in Wales being at risk
from automation by the early 2030s, and that analysis shows
that jobs with routine and repetitive tasks, many of which
will be able to be replaced by algorithms and
by Artificial Intelligence within the
next 20 years. And Bill Gates has commented that we often
overestimate the pace of change that we're likely to see
over the next two years, but underestimate the pace of
change we're likely to see over the next 10 years.
Certainly, in the next decade or more, all aspects of
society will be impacted by the potential of Artificial Intelligence, and education
is certainly central to that...
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