AI must work for people, not the other way around

ARTIFICIAL Intelligence (AI) is already having a major impact on work, jobs in creative industries, professional roles, and much else in our lives.

- DAVE PIKE

While employers are focused on the gains for profit margins and productivity, workers across the North East are understandably worried about their futures.

Policy makers and employers need to ensure that advances in AI don't leave working people and their communities behind.

The North East has been at the sharp end time and again when it comes to periods of industrial transformation. From shipbuilding to coal, steel and manufacturing, when employers have cut back it is the people of the North East who have struggled.

'Modernisation' in this region has too often meant unplanned deindustrialisation, and the withdrawal of decent, unionised jobs. Al threatens to repeat that story, only faster and across more sectors.