Eamonn Holmes has revealed he harbours concerns over eventually losing his job to a robot, as forms of artificial intelligence continue to develop rapidly.
It comes after an AI generated newsreader made its debut for a media outlet in Kuwait.
The video, posted to Twitter by Kuwait News, shows the computerised anchor introducing itself as “Fedha”.
The AI video showed the blonde woman wearing a white T-shirt with a black jacket.
Eamonn Holmes has concerns over the rise of AI
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Speaking on GB News, Eamonn Holmes says the threat posed by AI is a “serious” one that could lead to jobs evaporating as robots continue to develop.
“There would be nothing for us to do and no new jobs to do,” he warned.
“This one I saw last night on the news. A news reader. I thought ‘well, they can’t replace us’, but they can.
“So they just get an artificial bot that sits there, you just type in a script and it moves its mouth to the script.”
A robot is presented a Kuwait News bulletin on Twitter
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Speaking on GB News, Isabel Webster said we should take heed of Elon Musk’s suggestion to “pause” AI development as it continues to develop at an extraordinary rate.
She said: “I know that the AI world is mixing with the dating world. People are having dating relationships.
“We’ve seen teenage pregnancies go down dramatically. I can see AI having huge implications on human to human relations.
“I think if someone like Elon Musk turns around and says ‘I think we should actually pause on all developments in AI whilst we just take stock for a minute’, we should probably listen.”
In response, Eamonn Holmes dubbed the ever increasing trend “spooky”.
Kuwait is not the first country to unveil an AI-generated news presenter, with China deploying its own in 2018, which spoke in a somewhat robotic voice.
It comes amid warnings from investment bank Goldman Sachs saying AI could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs.
According to a report from the company, the technology could take over a quarter of work tasks in the US and Europe, but new jobs could open up as a result.
The Government has spoken out on the surge of AI technologies, with Technology Secretary Michelle Donelan saying she is keen to make sure AI “complements” the way people work in the UK, as opposed to it taking over.
She told the Sun: “We want to make sure that AI is complementing the way we work in the UK, not disrupting it - making our jobs better, rather than taking them away.”
