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IMF’s Gita Gopinath poses for an image after an interview with Reuters in Davos, May 23, 2022. (Reuters)
She additionally advocated for governments to bolster “social safety nets” for employees affected by the adoption of AI
IMF First Deputy Managing Director Gita Gopinath has warned of “substantial disruptions in labour markets” stemming from generative artificial intelligence and called on policymakers to quickly craft rules to govern the technology, the Financial Times reported on Monday.
“We need governments, we need institutions and we need policymakers to move quickly on all fronts, in terms of regulation, but also in terms of preparing for probably substantial disruptions in labour markets,” Gopinath mentioned in an interview to FT.
She additionally advocated for governments to bolster “social security nets” for workers affected by the adoption of AI, while working on tax policies that do not reward companies replacing employees with machines.
Gopinath cautioned policymakers to be careful in case some corporations emerge with an unassailable position in the new technology.
“You don’t want to have supersized companies with huge amounts of data and computing power that have an unfair advantage,” Gopinath instructed the newspaper.
(This story has not been edited by News18 employees and is revealed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
