Automation and AI in focus at the Sydney Policy Lab launch. The Policy Lab aims to contribute to the development of a society that works for everyone, by bringing people together to spark new ideas, reframe issues and transform the policy options on the table.

1. big cool statistic
90%

2. HOW MANY JOBS?
speed, pace, place1

3. $800 billion
116,000 employees
$236 billion
2.2 million employees

4. 47% of workers in the US
have jobs at high risk of potential
automation (Oxford Martin School
study, 2013)
a third of tasks in 60% of occupations
could be fully automated using today's
technology (McKinsey Global Institute, 2017)
80 million US and 15 million UK
jobs might be lost to automation (Bank
of England, 2016)
Sources: The Economist (2016), US population survey, Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis
US employment, by type of work

5. Source: Bloomberg using Bureau of Labor Statistics;
employment data are averages for first four months of 2017;
losses are from comparison to the same period in 2016
JOB LOSSES (US, 2017)

7. only 0.5% of US workers are employed
in industries that have emerged since 2000
(Oxford Martin School study, 2015)
(RE) SKILLING?

8. WHOSE AI?
investment, share of the pie,
principles, transparency
2

9. Source: Bloomberg
WORLD TOP 5 BY MARKET CAP
passes Wells Fargo
to become 10th
biggest company
April 5, 2017

10. US federal government $67 billion on all non-military research (2016)
$1.1 billion on unclassified A.I. research
Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft $60 billion
in research and development (NYT 2017, earnings reports)

11. How do you take accountability
for AI that learns in the
unsupervised world?
How biased is the algorithm?

12. IMAGINE
radically different futures3

13. 2005
…driverless cars can’t
execute a left turn against
oncoming traffic because
too many factors are
involved…
TWO PROMINENT
U.S. ECONOMISTS

14. 2011

15. THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW

16. MEETMIKE
Mike Seymour

18. https://au.linkedin.com/in/sandraapeter
https://flipboard.com/@SandraPeter
@sandraapeter