We need more plumbers and fewer lawyers in AI age, says BlackRock boss
📰 Original article: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wqrdkx8ppo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
Analysis Summary
- Propaganda Score
- 40% (confidence: 90%)
- Summary
- Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock, discusses the impact of AI on job markets, emphasizing the need for more skilled trades workers and fewer lawyers. He warns of potential economic consequences from rising oil prices and dismisses comparisons to the 2007-08 financial crisis. Fink also addresses energy policy and the global competition in AI development.
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“We need more plumbers and fewer lawyers in AI age, says BlackRock boss”
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“Society should respect plumbing and electrician careers as artificial intelligence (AI) replaces some office jobs”
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“If the price of oil hits $150 (£122) a barrel it will trigger a global recession”
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“BlackRock is a financial colossus, controlling assets worth $14 trillion”
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“BlackRock is one of the biggest investors in many of the world's largest companies”
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“The AI boom would create an enormous amount of jobs 'related to electricians and welders and plumbers'”
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“We need to balance that out, and we need to be proud that... a career can be just as strong in these fields of plumbing and electricians”
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“The surge in energy costs has led to some in the UK to argue that it should be focusing more on producing its own oil and gas”
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“Rising energy prices is a very regressive tax. It affects the poor more than the wealthy”
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“Some analysts have suggested that there are some echoes of the run-up to the 2007-08 financial crisis in the markets at the moment”
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“Last year, BlackRock was part of a consortium that bought one of the world's largest data centre providers, Aligned Data Centres, in a $40bn deal”
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“The biggest issue he feels that is hindering the expansion of AI in the US and Europe is the cost of energy”
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“I do not believe we have a bubble at all”
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