boss has been working with al for years. he runs bosch. yeah, the european tech and engineering company, which says within the next two years, all of its products will either contain ai or have been developed using it. wherever you rejoining me from around the world. once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, for decades, science fiction has been imagining what will happen when the computers take over. it s been the stuff of horror since stanley kubrick s film 2001, a space odyssey showed us the fear of an astronaut whose spaceship had a mind of its own. today, we re long past 2001, and the computers aren tjust learning they re also now so smart they re starting to take jobs. the change ai promises is massive. while both the industrial revolution and the digital revolution change the world of work. this could be a transformation which is even greater. that s certainly what us president biden thinks. i don t think ever in the history of human endeavour
a voiceover for some youtube videos that he realised that al was taking work away. alejandro, really good to have you with us. and alejandro, let s start with this because you were doing voiceover for a youtube video and then you went on holiday. you went on vacation. what happened then? well, what happened is that the youtube channel that i was recording for uploaded a new video in spanish and it was like, this is weird. i haven t recorded something new in the last couple of weeks, and when i clicked on it, what i heard was not my voice, but an ai generated voice, a very badly synched voiceover. it was terrible, it was terrible. and it was like, what is this? so i texted my employer and it was like, what s going on? and he confirmed the worst. he told me, well, yeah, the client
the future it s already here, but is it coming for yourjob? i did laugh off the idea of ai replacing writers or affecting myjob. until it did. i realised by myself that i had lost my job, you know, because i saw this video uploaded without my voice. it s been predicted that i will change the world of work, trashing millions ofjobs while creating new ones. well, today that change is already happening. these two have already felt it. dean meadowcroft lost his work as a copywriter after his company started using chat gpt and alejandro , a voice artist whose voice was replaced by a computer. plus jessica apatite at the boston consulting group has been taking the temperature of the global workforce, interviewing thousands of workers and bosses about how artificial intelligence is changing work right now. also on the show, our big
because it didn t go well. we re still waiting if maybe i could get myjob back. we do not sign contracts, binding contracts that say, ok you will work for us a year or even for three months. no. no this is come and go and come and go hey there is new material. a great let s work together. everything is legal. there is nothing illegal there. but they replacing is not something i could say, hey, they interrupted my contract. but you know, alejandro, i mean, some critics will say companies are benefiting because, well, they re saving money in profits, bigger profits, and and maybe they re a public company. so it s returning more money to the shareholders. i m not saying any of that s right, but that s the argument,
a piece of, you know, we started raising our voices. so they rehired those translators now to adapt or correct or do some, you know, quality check on those translations made by ai. so you could say that that is a good combination. you know, you still have people working, earning a living with what they studied for. but at the same time, you use alto make things go quick. it was a good balance. well, on that point, alejandro grau, a real pleasure. good luck with everything. and thanks for your time. now, from those very personal stories, we re going to turn to a wider perspective. in workplaces all over the world, ai, it is the hottest topic. and my next guest is behind her report, which interviewed some 12,000 people in different companies all over the world about how employees and managers view ai. are they worried, excited or bemused? jessica apatite, thanks for your time. really good to have you with us. and jessica, let s start with this. i mean, you ve recently