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The race for 6G supremacy has already started. The UK must get ahead
As the scramble to ban Huawei shows, it pays to develop your telecoms strategy early
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Even though fifth-generation fighter jets have only recently taken to the skies, countries are already working on the sixth generation. The same, alas, isn’t true for sixth-generation internet. Even as countries including the UK are just beginning to accelerate their fifth-generation rollout, they should be planning for 6G. The UK government should make sure Britain becomes a 6G pioneer.
Last year the American F35 fifth-generation fighter jet, 21 of which were acquired by the UK, performed all manner of operational premieres. Britain is now working on a sixth-generation fighter jet of its own. The Tempest will be made by BAE…
How does all this look in the real world? The ONS classifies all work into 9 Major Groups, from CEOs and Generals in Group 1 (Managers, Directors and Senior Officials) to warehouse staff and farm labourers in Group 9 (Elementary Occupations).
Each group faces very different risks from automation. Often, though not always, the less skilled a job, the more at risk it is. And because women and young people often do less-skilled, casual work, as they start careers, or juggle the childcare which still falls overwhelmingly to them, these two groups face the greatest risk of automation.
ONS analysis shows that 70pc of the roles at high risk of automation are held by women. And it is people aged 20 to 24 years who are most at risk of having their job automated, compared to other age groups (indeed, at 15.7pc their risk is more than 10x the risk of those aged 35-39).
AI expert warns 180,000 deepfake porn videos of innocent people will be online in 2021
Deepfake technology can can create porn clips featuring anyone – and in 2021 we can expect more AI-created videos intended to destabilise governments, warns expert Nina Schick
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