Go Without AI Once a Week, Tech Adviser Tells IMF Audience in Bangkok
Source: The Nation Thailand
Published on: 2026-10-12 11:14
The city-state offers free courses and a personal "skills passport", she said, and subsidises firms that hire and retrain people over 40, covering up to 70 per cent of salary, up to a limit. It also gives grants, which she put at $400 million, to help companies redesign their work. Courses alone are not enough, she argued, when workers over 40 have mortgages, children and elderly parents. "Till you have this trifecta," she said, companies will not be ready to absorb people. Why a Copilot for everyone fails For business, Dr Khanna said giving every employee an AI assistant and hoping the organisation transforms is "a disaster". Staff feel productive because they have summarised a document or drafted an email, she said, but margins and customer numbers do not move. She advised leaders to pick three to five workflows that matter most, such as wealth management for banks or order backlog...
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