The Future of Work is Now

Within the next 30 years the work landscape will be completely disrupted by rapid technological change through AI, machine learning, automation and more. Many jobs as we know them will be completely transformed, and new jobs we haven’t heard of yet will be the norm. UTS is future-proofing its graduates through innovative, tech-led industry collaborations and real-world educational opportunities, tackling the future of work, now.

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UTS PhD alumna Dr Chelsea Wise is leading a revolution in data and AI as part of fast-growing AI startup Hyper Anna.
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When I hear ‘future of work’, I think about automation and higher order of work, but I think it goes beyond automation as well. We’re going to move into removing a lot of the repetitive work we’ve traditionally done into automating that through machine learning and artificial intelligence. But it’s going to enable us to go into the new area of innovation – this is where we’ll start bringing in how we interact in our physical, biological and digital world and bring it together.

Today we’ve been looking at the future of work, so this whole week has been part of a subject called Envisioning Futures.

We’re all going to be in the workforce, but we don’t know what that’s going to look like. We’re really trying to better understand how emerging trends like automation, artificial intelligence and I suppose the work that we’re doing in a transdisciplinary team, how that’s going to affect the workplace.

I think the workforce is going to be impacted, and we can see that today with jobs being disrupted, and I think people need to think really hard about elements of their job that are routine and repetitive, and they’re going to be working increasingly alongside more and more technology, so it’s going to be important for them to understand that and basically turn towards continuous learning.

The more that we, you know, have a vision of the future and we bring it back, we realise a lot of what will happen depends on the decisions that we make now – it depends on governmental decisions, but also decisions that happen on a corporate level.
How are we going to handle innovation or what defines success?Do we want to take risks, are we searching for money, are we searching for social value? And those sorts of decisions have to come now, and they in turn will define the future.

I can’t wait for this generation of people to come into the workforce, because it’s actually going to give a real challenge to the leaders of the companies.Because they come on all cylinders firing, they know exactly what they want to do and how they’re doing to make a contribution, and the current state at the moment is a lot of the leaders are not able to really grapple with what the futures are holding for their companies, and a lot of the answers are actually in the people of those companies, and it’s going to be important for the leaders to provide this climate of innovation to allow these people to speak and for this new cohort, when they join these companies, to be given a voice, and I think the answers will be there amongst these people and amongst the collaboration that will be happening.

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The Future of Work is Now

The Future of Work is Now

A Wise move from academia to AI startups

Unlocking data to innovate for the future

Doing the maths for the future of work

Future-proofing CHOICE by aligning technology and business

Hackathons, problem solving and mentoring

The next generation of lawyers

Giving robots the dirty work