IBM plans to replace nearly 8,000 workers with artificial intelligence

The CEO of IBM considers a 

computer giant's administrative staff

and automation technologies, given its great potential to execute this type of task.

In an interview with the

agency  on Monday, Arvind Krishna said that his company would put a

 and, potentially, reduce the workforce by 7,800 jobs over several years.

"These non-customer jobs are almost 26,000 workers," Krishna explained.

"I can easily see

and automation over a five-year period," she detailed.

The leader foresees a pause in the selection of personnel for that department, which represents a fraction of the almost 260,000 employees of the US group.

"There is no general cessation of hiring," an IBM spokesman said on Tuesday, contacted by the 

news agency , in an attempt to bring peace of mind.

"IBM has a very thoughtful hiring policy, focused on positions that generate income. We are very selective when it comes to positions that are not directly relevant to our clients or technology. We have thousands of positions to fill right now," he

.

Like many technology companies, IBM launched a social plan in the winter.

The group

, according to

,

in the first quarter.

OpenAI, the pioneer of generative AI, demonstrated with its ChatGPT interface and other tools that these new technologies are capable of composing emails, creating websites, generating lines of code, and generally performing many repetitive

.

In March, a Goldman Sachs study claimed that some 300 million jobs could be replaced by AI computer automation.

The "godfather" of artificial intelligence left Google and warns of the dangers of this technology

The British

, one of the great pioneers in the development of artificial intelligence (AI), left his job at Google to be able to warn more freely about the dangers posed by these new technologies, as he explained in an interview published by The New York Times.

Known by many as the "godfather" of AI, Hinton said that, at 75, he regrets having spent his entire career developing AI.

"I console myself with the normal excuse: if it hadn't been me,

," he said.

Meanwhile, he expressed his fear in the short term that the internet could be flooded with

, and that people might not be able to distinguish

.

He also explained that these technologies can

and, later on, even pose a

.

"The idea that these things could actually become smarter than people, some people believed. But most people thought it was a long way off. I thought it was a long way off. I thought it was 30 to 50 years or so away. even more. Obviously,

," he added.

With information from AFP

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