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AI use in UK hits 'tipping point' as companies scale up, Google exec says
LONDON, June 17 (Reuters) - Adoption of artificial intelligence has reached a "tipping point" in Britain, as companies move from experimentation to large-scale deployment and start seeing returns, a Google Cloud executive said on Wednesday.
Businesses and government bodies that were testing AI tools a year ago are now using them to run more complex processes and improve productivity, Maureen Costello, Google Cloud's vice president for the United Kingdom, Ireland and Sub-Saharan Africa, told Reuters in an interview.
The skills people still perform better than AI, according to workplace experts
NEW YORK (AP) — Many workers fear machines will supplant them as adoption of artificial intelligence accelerates.
But what if people have qualities both unmistakably human and essential to career success that AI could not easily replace them?
Some workplace experts argue that with more businesses adopting AI tools, soft skills such as empathy, critical thinking and ethical decision-making are worth cultivating to help employees become indispensible.
Across industries and occupations, “the skills that are most resistant to displacement by AI are the ones that are the most distinctly human,” Maria Flynn, president and CEO of Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit focused on workforce development, said. “Some of those things are relationship building, conflict resolution, the ability to guide and motivate other people and ethical judgment.”
Employers want entry-level workers with senior-level skills in the age of AI, a huge PwC analysis found
AI is raising the bar for entry-level jobs, according to a new PwC analysis of global job ads.
Employers in AI-exposed fields are increasingly looking for entry-level workers to have the skills that they previously expected from senior workers, including emotional intelligence, judgment, and leadership.
The findings come from PwC's 2026 AI jobs barometer, released on June 15, which analyzed over 1 billion job advertisements globally.
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