
Without a doubt, this region has always been good at adapting, and that applies to all the essential innovations of the past century: from the tube amplifier, via the transistor to the chip. If you had told those original farmers the future would look like this, with only 3 percent of the population involved in farming, and you had named the jobs people do today, you would likely have been met with disbelief. What our future jobs will be then, Van de Weijer cannot say for sure. “But a hundred and fifty years ago nearly everyone was a farmer,” says Van de Weijer. AI prompts fears of unemployment, yet in fact it could save us ever having to the boring, repetitive tasks again leave them to a robot.”

“We are well on the way to offering bachelor's and master's programs to our own students but people beyond the university also need to appreciate what AI is. This is precisely why Carlo van de Weijer, general manager at EAISI believes it is important to invest in encouraging people already working in the field to move towards AI. But a new young workforce like this can't just be pulled out of a hat, it takes time. The job market is crying out for people with new skills, as well as knowledge and experience of AI.
