Ford CEO, Jim Farley, hopes that I have helped him the blue passes, but “it is difficult to say that today”

Ford CEO Jim Farley said it was too early to know how AI can help or harm essential workers – those that work in sectors such as manufacturing, qualified trades and infrastructure.

“I hope it will be an aid, but it’s hard to say that today,” he said on Bloomberg TV Wall Street Week Friday.

IA investments in the lines of construction and transmission of data centers will bring “rear winds” for the essential economy, because construction will require the support of construction workers, plumbers, electricians and other blue passes, said Farley.

A recent report from the Alfa Institute revealed that $ 100 billion in the AI ​​data center could create up to half a million jobs in the United States over five years, covering construction, manufacturing, transport and real estate.

But on the other hand, Farley said that there were no good history of the application of new technologies to make the example of blue passes more productive and indicated in automation.

“These innovations have really withdrawn jobs on the job market and outside the essential economy,” he said.

In fact, the productivity of the essential economy has decreased in the past 20 years, while the productivity of white collars has increased, according to Farley.

A study by the Fed of St. Louis revealed that around 4% of blue -collar hours in one week were devoted to the use of AI, which allowed them of 1% of their work. But for IT workers and mathematics, 11.7% of their hours were devoted to the use of AI, which allows them to save 2.5% of their work. For management, 9.7% of their hours worked using AI saved them 2.2%.

And even if the data centers can increase the work of the blue passes, Farley previously said that there was a death of workers capable of building AI data centers and operating factories. On Friday, he told Bloomberg that Gap was about 1 million workers.

“The irony of irony is that we have all these data centers, all these new technologies to deploy, and still requires electricians, construction workers … and we have this huge shortage,” he said.

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