Half of current students at university think their current and future jobs could be under threat from artificial intelligence (AI).
New research from Kingston University looked at whether students are equipped for their futures in a rapidly changing workplace, particularly where technology is concerned.
It is just over a year since the launch of ChatGPT, and a survey of 5,000 people in the UK suggested only 7% of business leaders believe graduates are adequately prepared for the impacts of AI.
Ewan Hart Prieto, who is studying computer games programming at the south-west London university, said he’s ‘not a massive fan’ of AI.
The 22-year-old from Twickenham said: ‘It scares me, but not to death. I don’t think that it will impact me personally while I’m looking for a job which would be from around next September onwards, but in two or three years I reckon it will be a big thing.
‘I still don’t think it’ll be the deciding factor on whether people get jobs, but it definitely will be a bigger thing, and eventually become a big part of the games industry.’
The final year student, who did a placement with video games developer Feral Interactive last year, said some games are already using AI ‘very well’, for example to build characters or worlds, or to fill in dialogue.
