Big Business is rapidly embracing technology, but at what cost? Can robots and AI can make the fashion industry smarter, faster, better — without sacrificing humanity?
In this new podcast episode, Meghan Hall, tech editor of WWD sister publication Sourcing Journal, chats with Lauren Parker, director of Fairchild Studio about the SJ Tech Report: The Human Issue and the Brave New World of technology and AI. They also discuss the symbiotic, yet often contentious, relationship between man and machine.
[To listen to the episode, CLICK HERE.]
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“One of the most widely discussed impacts of AI is job displacement or replacement,” said Hall, adding that it would be a fool’s game to try to completely block the usage of AI inside companies. “There’s definitely a lot of fear today, but one of my favorite truisms from the industry over the past year or so has been, ‘AI is less likely to take your job than a person who knows how to use AI.’ That seems to hold up in lots of different areas of the industry, from desk jobs to hands-on warehouse operations and others.”
To download SJ’s Tech Report, CLICK HERE.
