From silicon to sentience: The legacy guiding AI’s next frontier and human cognitive migration
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Summary
The AI revolution signals the start of the ‘cognitive era’, according to IBM CEO Ginni Rometty’s proclamation in 2015, and is the latest in a series of technological advancements that have triggered ‘migrations’ in working habits and the job market
Previous Industrial and Digital Revolutions saw the mass migration of workers, with people moving from rural, agrarian lives to factories, and then digitalization prompting the adoption of new skills in the 1990s
The current migration is affecting not just working habits but concepts of identity, and the speed of these transitions is increasing, compressing decades of change into years, leaving some people and institutions behind