7 OCTOBER | LONDON 2024
SEPTEMBER 12TH - 14TH
The O2, LONDON
Future of Work
Your weekly CogX briefing on HR tech, automation, and the workplace
How soon will AI replace human workers?
It’s the week of the CogX Festival! We’re hosting the biggest names in AI, entrepreneurship, leadership and more — from LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman to Diary Of A CEO host Steven Bartlett.
The CogX Festival is the perfect place to get inspired, network, and level up your career. Whether you’re looking to get advice from peers, find investors, meet your next employer, entertain existing customers or find new ones, you'll find them at the festival.
We have a shorter briefing for you this week, exploring why the future of work may simply mean working — and how soon will AI replace human workers?
CogX Long Reads
How soon will AI replace human workers?
Soon, powerful AI will be able to perform cognitive work at the same level — or above — humans. As businesses struggle to hire skilled staff willing to work in-office, some are hoping the technology is a silver bullet. But they’re wrong to hinge their hopes on AI, futurist Amy Webb warns.
AI could turn good jobs into bad ones
AI is different from previous transformative technologies because it will disrupt high-paying fields as well as low-skilled ones. Tools like ChaGPT could be used to take a complex role one person is doing and break it into 10 lower-skilled jobs
Future of Work