AI may replace 80% of human jobs in 'next few years', says expert

Artificial intelligence or AI could replace almost 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years, so said US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel. 56-year-old cognitive scientist and famed robot-creator Goertzel is founder and chief executive of SingularityNET, a research group he launched to create "Artificial General Intelligence," or AGI -artificial intelligence with human cognitive abilities.

At the recent Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro, the world's biggest annual technology conference, Goertzel spoke to AFP.

In an interview the leading AI guru spoke about AGI and its impact on jobs, how it fares versus human intelligence and more.

Talking about the threat to jobs from AI, he said that you could probably obsolete 80 percent of jobs that people do, without having an AGI, by my guess. Not with ChatGPT exactly as a product. But with systems of that nature, which are going to follow in the next few years.