{"id":372,"date":"2025-04-30T09:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T09:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/?p=372"},"modified":"2025-07-21T14:27:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T14:27:41","slug":"automation-and-the-future-of-work-presentation-in-the-sherwood-observatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/automation-and-the-future-of-work-presentation-in-the-sherwood-observatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Automation and the future of work (Presentation in the Sherwood Observatory)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/sherwood-observatory.org.uk\/\">Sherwood Observatory<\/a> as part of a meeting of local government, business and education stakeholders. We spent the morning talking about AI, automation and the future of work. <\/p>\n<p>We really benefitted from input from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/habaibeh\/\">Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh<\/a> from Nottingham Trent University who is an AI researcher. I was really struck by the way that he was able to describe the real impacts that AI could make on business efficiency and performance. But, I was also struck by the fact that these were detailed and bespoke developments within the context of specific businesses and business processes. AI is clearly not a magic cure-all, and it remains critical to keep human beings in the loop, particularly during development. The reality of AI is some way away from the rhetoric it seems. <\/p>\n<p>I also made a contribution where I talked about the likely impacts that AI and automation will have on the labour market and careers. This is what I had to say&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-830098b5-bbb4-40a0-b302-2918e0ee9d1f\" href=\"https:\/\/adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/automation-and-the-future-of-work.pptx\">Automation and the future of work<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/automation-and-the-future-of-work.pptx\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-830098b5-bbb4-40a0-b302-2918e0ee9d1f\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Sherwood Observatory as part of a meeting of local government, business and education &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/automation-and-the-future-of-work-presentation-in-the-sherwood-observatory\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span class=\"more-button\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Automation and the future of work (Presentation in the Sherwood Observatory)<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":373,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions\/373"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joltransvekdu.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}