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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the transformative technology for this decade. With 36 million unemployed in US today, can AI also create jobs? The World Economic Forum in 2020 forecasted a strong increase in AI jobs globally over the next 2 years, with new jobs per 10,000 opportunities increasing from 78 today to 123 in 2022. World Economic Forum published research in Jan 2020, shows jobs in AI almost double by 2022.

AI started with machines being programmed to give specific responses for certain questions. Siri could pull the weather report upon request. Machine learning is the new approach where the software is given large volumes of data and the software will begin to identify certain patterns. After seeing millions of images of cat and non-cats, the software will be able to identify a cat image or even design a cat image.

If machines can learn new skills, the applications for AI are endless. Today, in a kiosk in San Francisco a robot with AI can take a customer’s coffee order and pour a cup of coffee at exactly the temperature and mixings requested. Applying AI for automation is beneficial by reducing expenses, accelerating processes, and increasing precision. The downside is that as AI automates processes, these robots are replacing humans.

There are many applications of AI that create jobs. The obvious direct jobs are in AI technology development and research. Here are some other examples.

Finance

Glenn Gow, Partner at Clear Ventures and board member of several AI startups, sees opportunities for AI in finance. “AI has enabled large pieces of the audit process to be automated, but it hasn’t reduced the number of people involved in the audit process. In fact, if done well, AI can help finance professionals find patterns in the data they would otherwise not see identifying questionable transactions, and due to it’s strength in predictive analytics, create better forecasting models.”

This could create additional jobs for auditors who can analyze more data more quickly; then the auditors could focus on helping the company improve processes. This would mean more high value-added consultant auditor positions.

Human Rights

Betsy Beaumon, CEO of Benetech, a technology nonprofit, notes they are using AI to support human rights efforts in Syria: “Human rights investigators have more evidence at their fingertips than ever before, and artificial intelligence supercharges what they are able to do with that data. Coming out of the conflict in Syria, we saw millions of videos uploaded to YouTube and social media that documented the atrocities taking place. Benetech is using artificial intelligence to help investigators sort through and analyze this massive amount of data in order to bring perpetrators to justice. Using computer vision, our JusticeAI platform assigns each video a fingerprint that links it to other videos that are similar. This not only significantly reduces the time spent on reviewing evidence, but also enables investigators to build stronger cases using the best evidence available, and chart a path to justice.”[…]

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Humans in the Loop is a social enterprise founded in 2017. It helps refugees from conflict zones like Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan settle in the country by acquiring digital skills that they can use for working on artificial-intelligence and machine-learning-related projects.

So far, the enterprise has helped around 2,000 refugees find work and integrate into Bulgarian society.

According to its CEO, Iva Gumnishka, Humans in the Loop can provide workers for any stages of the machine-learning model training and development cycle.

“The work ranges from collecting and labeling the ground truth dataset, to verifying the model’s predictions once it’s trained, and handling edge cases, which it’s not sure about,” Gumnishka tells ZDNet.

“We do quite a lot of work in the field of labeling and annotating images and video for computer-vision purposes, which is where the biggest demand in the market is coming from.”

The organization works mostly with refugees, internally displaced people, and people living in conflict zones. It looks to offer employment for those who are left out of the labor market. Aside from the 100-people team based in Bulgaria, the company also works with 150 people across Turkey, Syria, and Iraq.

“In most countries, we partner with local NGOs, which provide digital skills and IT training. We ourselves organize upskilling training for our workforce, which includes computer skills and English,” she explains.

According to Gumnishka, these opportunities are especially suitable for women who prefer to work from home and are looking to combine their projects with housework and childcare.

“We always distribute projects according to a priority score that each worker has, determined by their legal status, number of dependents, employment status, and other vulnerability factors.” she tells ZDNet.

Over the past few years, the company has worked with many startups across Europe and the US, developing products in the fields of AI and computer vision.

Its workers have also been involved in precision agriculture projects involving the segmentation of crops from drone images, insurance tech projects related to car-damage detection and assessment, facial detection, and spoofing detection for CCTV cameras.

The company is currently looking for additional partners in the Middle East, especially in Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Yemen. By 2020, Humans in the Loop aims to employ up to 500 people from conflict-affected countries, and to forge many new partnerships with AI companies.

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