Getting the AI-labor balance right

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are happening quickly. Anthropic's recent Mythos model is so proficient at discovering security flaws in code that it is being restricted to a handful of companies, along with the U.S. and U.K. governments, before being released more widely. While this raises questions about the future of cybersecurity, the ability of AI to conduct tasks more quickly and, in some cases, better than humans raises questions about how labor will coexist with AI in the workplace. This is already beginning to come to a head in Korea. Park Sang-man, the head of the Korean Metal Workers' Union (KMWU), is pushing for workers to be at the table as companies integrate AI into the workplace. He argues that he’s not against new technology, but that it should be used to reduce dangerous tasks rather than replace workers. One of the proximate causes driving KMWU’s concerns is Hyundai Motor Group’s interest in bringing AI-enabled robots onto the factory floor. Earlier this year, Hyundai unveiled the latest version of its Atlas humanoid robot. This AI-enabled version can

Original source: Korea Times