{"id":4178,"date":"2023-02-17T15:02:27","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T11:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmhub.aus.edu\/?p=4178"},"modified":"2026-05-11T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T08:46:53","slug":"keep-concerns-about-ai-in-context-says-nobel-winning-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2023\/02\/17\/keep-concerns-about-ai-in-context-says-nobel-winning-economist\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep concerns about AI in context, says Nobel-winning economist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Meera Shaheen<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH: Concerns that Artificial Intelligence will cause massive job losses are overstated and the technology\u2019s economic and social impact needs to be seen realistically, Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Christopher Pissarides said at the American University of Sharjah Feb. 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cRobots were thought to take away jobs, but I think it&#8217;s exaggerated,\u201d said Pissarides, speaking in the Main Building\u2019s main auditorium to several hundred people.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said robots and artificial intelligence should not be viewed as an inherent threat to people\u2019s livelihoods, but rather tools for them to use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He likened the usage of robots, AI, and programming to people needing to be literate to work in the post-industrial revolution world. He added that though some jobs will be digitized, many more jobs will be created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pissarides said that these new tools are still tools, and will need humans to maintain and operate them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His presentation was entitled \u201cThe Future of Work and Well-Being.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Meera Shaheen UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH: Concerns that Artificial Intelligence will cause massive job losses are overstated and the technology\u2019s economic and social impact needs to be seen realistically, Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Christopher Pissarides said at the American University of Sharjah Feb. 16. \u201cRobots were thought to take away jobs, but I think it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,27,49],"class_list":{"0":"post-4178","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-international","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdcmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}