AI & Tech
Booking CEO Warns AI Job Displacement Could Trigger Technology Rejection and US Competitive Disadvantage
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Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel
"I am concerned if we end up in a situation where people start rejecting technology because of fear, that will end up being bad for us as a society. And by the way, other parts of the world are not going to have that problem, and they will be disadvantaged, I assure you. We're not in China. They are not having that same thing about, oh, AI is bad and we shouldn't do it."
Fogel expressed concern that rapid AI-driven job losses, particularly for workers like 57-year-old truck drivers facing automation, could happen faster than retraining programs can address. He cited his own company's elimination of translation jobs over two decades and warned that China's embrace of AI could leave the US at a competitive disadvantage if American workers reject the technology out of fear rather than adapting to it.
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