PwC’s Joe Atkinson spoke to SiliconRepublic.com’s Ann O’Dea about the importance of human judgement when it comes to AI.

AI continues to transform businesses around the world and it means that these same businesses need to make sure they have the people skills necessary to work with the technology.

Speaking to Ann O’Dea as part of our Future Human series, PwC’s AI chief, Joe Atkinson, said humans need to be at the centre of this AI transformation.

“We see an AI-driven future, and in such a future, you need the people who can use the technology in a thoughtful and responsible way,” he said.

“I say to our teams all the time: If you produce something now, you’re responsible for it. If you produce something tomorrow that may have some AI in it, you’re still responsible for it. And I think that connectivity of the human in the loop, that human judgement applied to the AI is just incredibly important.”

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