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Oskar Howell: Tech Commentator on the rising use of generative AI in the workplace · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: New research from Robert Half finds ninety one percent of
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  Speaker 1: workers are using AI to help with their day to
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  Speaker 1: day tasks and ninety three percent are open with their
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  Speaker 1: higher ups about using it. But is it reducing the
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  Speaker 1: importance of human employees? Tech commentator Oscar how is with
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  Speaker 1: us this morning?
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Oscar, morning Francesca. Thank you for having me on.
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  Speaker 1: It used to be seen as almost cheating, didn't it.
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  Speaker 1: We sort of hit the fact that we might be
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  Speaker 1: using AI. But is the perception of AI changing?
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think a lot of employees, especially
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  Speaker 2: in rolls, traditional desk rolls, really opening themselves up to
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  Speaker 2: using AI and their daily jobs, and they're not afraid
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  Speaker 2: to be talking with their managers about it.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we suddenly so open about using it?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. There was almost a shift in the culture. Really,
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  Speaker 2: a new research out of Robert Half of the crypting
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  Speaker 2: agency you mentioned, fifty six are using it on a
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  Speaker 2: daily or near daily basis. You know, maybe the advancement
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  Speaker 2: of some of these AI tools that were seeing are
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  Speaker 2: making it, you know, are making their workloads so their
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  Speaker 2: ability to work so efficient that it's something that you
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  Speaker 2: kind of just have to bring up. You know. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: if you can turn around a report in thirty seconds
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  Speaker 2: that might have taken you a week. Perhaps your manager
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  Speaker 2: may have started off in questions, so it might be
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  Speaker 2: it might pay to be forthright in these situations.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I've been told by a few ATR
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  Speaker 1: people that actually, these days, you know, they are looking
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  Speaker 1: for people who understand how to use it, as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to once upon a time, you know, implying that you know,
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of cheating on your job.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. No, I think it's becoming a real staple of
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  Speaker 2: a lot of desk jobs. And I think, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 2: businesses are looking for people who have more than just
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  Speaker 2: accurse through understanding of how AI works. Obviously, it's allowing
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  Speaker 2: people to become more efficient. It's allowing them to get
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  Speaker 2: their work done quicker and takes a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: workload off. And yeah, I mean there's also the fact
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  Speaker 2: that it can help you know, having an understanding of
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  Speaker 2: AI can help you, you know, spot scam spot when
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  Speaker 2: it's used maybe not so well. And yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's just improving people's ability to work.
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  Speaker 1: What are the impacts of such a huge increase? Are
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  Speaker 1: we putting jobs at risk?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that seems to be the fear at the moment, right,
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  Speaker 2: And I almost wonder if a lot of these people
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  Speaker 2: who are upskilling in the use of AI might be
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  Speaker 2: doing so with that understanding that perhaps, you know, if
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  Speaker 2: they're not on top of things, will maybe coming for
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  Speaker 2: their jobs. I mean, at this point, eighty seven percent
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  Speaker 2: of work are sampled in this survey said that they
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  Speaker 2: think it's necessary for career success in the future. And yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I tend to agree because I mean, if you, like
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  Speaker 2: I said, like we said, it's so powerful and it
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  Speaker 2: can turn around a lot of these creative or desk
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  Speaker 2: roll you know, for a lot of these jobs, that
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  Speaker 2: can turn around a lot of this work so quickly. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a real possibility that some of these
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  Speaker 2: roles might find themselves outpaced by technology in the next
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  Speaker 2: few years.
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  Speaker 1: Oscar, thank you so much for your thoughts this morning.
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  Speaker 1: Really appreciate it. And of course we were talking to
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  Speaker 1: today about the Oscars and how they've mentioned that you know,
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  Speaker 1: if you happen to use AI in your film, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that you won't win an Oscar. You were
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  Speaker 1: still eligible and have an opportunity to win one of
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  Speaker 1: the big Oscars. The reason they had to say that
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  Speaker 1: was because actually, somewhere along the line in Hollywood, when
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  Speaker 1: someone makes a film, AI is being used, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: being used in the production stage and the post production stage,
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere along the way, everybody's quietly using it. They didn't
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  Speaker 1: want to admit it, but they are actually all quietly
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  Speaker 1: using it in different ways. For more from earlier edition
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