Workers Not Threatened by Artificial Intelligence
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With your Money Briefing, I'm Charlie Turner in New York for The Wall Street Journal. A new poll finds many workers don't feel threatened by artificial intelligence or how it might impact their jobs. J.R. Whelan will talk with Robert Half's Paul McDonald in a moment. First, here are some money headlines. Stocks are headed for one of their best months in decades, but The Wall Street Journal says shares of some brokerages and exchange operators, where investors can trade stocks themselves, are underperforming the major averages. The S&P 500 has been up around 7% in June, while the Nasdaq Composite has risen about 8%. Exchange operators CME Group and Intercontinental Exchange have both registered smaller gains, while CBOE Global Markets stock has fallen about 1%.
Among brokerages, shares of both Charles Schwab and TD Ameritrade have fallen slightly in June. A big reason is the lack of volatility.
Why do half of workers say AI and automation won't hurt their jobs?
That may be good for your retirement account, but lower volatility in a rising market can turn investors away from shares of brokerages and exchanges, which usually profit from bigger market swings. Last week, Federal Reserve policymakers kept short-term interest rates steady, but indicated that they might lower them soon. However, two top Fed officials said rates should have been lowered. St.
What did Robert Half's poll reveal about worker and manager attitudes toward AI?
Louis Fed Bank President James Bullard cast the lone dissenting vote at the meeting, while non-voting member Neel Kashkari, the head of the Minneapolis Fed, also came out for a rate cut. They both wanted the Federal Open Market Committee to lower short-term rates to help address persistently weak inflation pressures and rising economic risks, such as the Trump administration's global trade battles. Coming up, half of workers in a new survey say they don't think AI or automation will have a negative effect on their jobs.
All the talk of artificial intelligence and automation might lead some to believe that the robots are, in fact, taking over. But a new poll indicates that Americans are pretty optimistic about their role in the workforce alongside automation. Robert Half conducted the poll, and Senior Executive Director Paul McDonald is on the line with us with some details. So, Paul, about half the people polled think that new technology and automation will have a positive impact on their job.
It was quite interesting, JR. When we did this poll, we thought that the fear factor that robots or said differently, AI or artificial intelligence is creating a lot of anxiety in the workforce. We've heard this anecdotally for a while. So we embarked upon this trying to ferret out what is the impact on jobs? What is the impact on the workers of AI or robots, if you will? The results came back and about half the people said there'd be no impact on their jobs. And about 40 percent actually came back and said there'd be a positive impact by things of increased productivity, the ability to develop new skills that they didn't have before. And to get their, you know, overall, just get their work done more efficiently and
What I found interesting is that managers who were surveyed felt that AI will actually make jobs more human-centric and not less.
Yeah, it was a real key finding. Again, we did the worker survey of office workers. That was 2,800 workers. We did managers in the United States. That was 1,200 managers. On the manager side or employer side of the equation, They felt as though the mundane tasks, such as data entry, account reconciliations, to name two, would be done by the computer, allowing the worker to step up into more analysis, more strategy, more forecasting-focused, interpreting the results. Now, that dovetails back into the need and the demand for more soft skills today, people that can communicate, people that have critical thinking skills. So the two go hand in hand. So there's a key finding here that the employers feel as though the computer is going to do more work, allowing the individual worker to step up and use their brain a little more.
There's also kind of a mixed response as well with AI and new technology.
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