Tag: employment
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Navigating AI challenges: How universities can stay relevant in the age of AI
The 2024 Work Trend Index report reveals widespread AI adoption in the workplace, posing significant challenges for universities. Higher education institutions must rapidly adapt curricula, train faculty, and emphasise AI skills to remain relevant. Failure to do so could lead to obsolescence, reduced enrollment, and competition from alternative education providers in the AI-driven job market.
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Comment: There’s a new obstacle to getting a job after college: Getting approved by AI
Companies may not be ready to outsource vetting candidates for C-Suite and executive positions to algorithms, but the stakes are lower for entry-level roles and internships. That means some of today’s college students are effectively the guinea pigs for a largely unproven mechanism for evaluating applicants. Metz, R. (2019). There’s a new obstacle to getting…
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Graduates are taking £9k courses to help beat AI interviews for City jobs
in AIVia a webcam, the software remotely asks preliminary-round candidates 20 minutes of questions and brain-teasers, and records eye movements, breathing patterns and any nervous tics. Popular software such as HireVue also scans for emotion and expressions, such as blinks, smiles and frowns, by monitoring the face through the applicant’s front-facing smartphone camera or computer webcam.…
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How well can we actually predict the future? Katja Grace on why expert opinion isn’t a great guide to AI’s impact and how to do better – 80,000 Hours
Experts believe that artificial intelligence will be better than humans at driving trucks by 2027, working in retail by 2031, writing bestselling books by 2049, and working as surgeons by 2053. But how seriously should we take these predictions? Katja Grace, lead author of ‘When Will AI Exceed Human Performance?’, thinks we should treat such…