AI threatens blue-collar jobs, too

Generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) is sweeping across industries, and while it is seen as a great threat to many white-collar jobs, the technology’s rapid advance in the manufacturing industry shows blue-collar workers are at risk of being replaced, too.

Ed Watal, the founder and principal of IT strategy firm Intellibus, says AI is rapidly accelerating the fourth industrial revolution, and manufacturing is already being transformed through automation, predictive maintenance and quality control that is changing o