许多英国大型企业计划在未来一年用人工智能取代员工，这是首席财务官的一项突出调查所显示的。
Many of Britain’s large businesses are ready to replace staff with artificial intelligence over the next year, according to a prominent survey of chief financial officers.
德勤周三表示，52%的CFO预计将因技术而裁员，而AI的采用仍处于早期阶段。超过三分之二——67%——表示他们目前仅实现了他们最终期望的AI带来变化的四分之一。
Deloitte said Wednesday that 52% of CFOs expect to cut headcount due to the technology, with AI adoption still in its early stages. More than two thirds — 67% — said they’ve achieved just a quarter of the changes they ultimately expect from AI.
该报告增加了英国无就业增长复苏的证据，这对安迪·伯纳姆领导的工党政府构成政治困境。AI采用和高昂的雇佣成本正鼓励企业用更少的岗位扩张。因此，长期失业率上升，青年失业率达到十年来最高水平——这是一个在经济超越欧洲同行的异常现象。
The report adds to evidence of the UK’s jobless growth revival, which poses a political dilemma for Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s Labour government. AI adoption and high employment costs are encouraging firms to expand with fewer roles. As a result, long-term unemployment is rising and youth joblessness is at its highest in over a decade — an anomaly in an economy that’s whizzing past European peers.
这凸显了AI部长卡尼什卡·纳拉扬面临的挑战，他在周一的演讲中承诺“不让劳动人民承担AI革命的代价”。
It underscores the challenge facing AI Minister Kanishka Narayan, who pledged to “never leave working people to bear the cost” of the AI revolution, in a speech on Monday.
“我理解人们自然会对自己的工作以及人工智能对他们孩子未来的意义感到焦虑，”纳拉扬说。“我也感受到这种担忧和焦虑。”虽然企业正在使用AI来削减成本，但其对利润的影响尚不明确。根据德勤报告，只有三分之一的CFO认为AI将在明年帮助提升利润率。
“I understand why people are naturally anxious about their jobs and what artificial intelligence means for their children’s future,” Narayan said. “I feel that concern, that anxiety too.”While firms are using AI to cut costs, the impact on profits is less certain. Only a third of CFOs believe AI will help increase margins in the next year, according to the Deloitte report.
德勤在9月17日至10月1日期间调查了66名CFO。其中，12人来自富时100公司，25人来自富时250公司。
Deloitte surveyed 66 CFOs between Sep. 17 and Oct. 1. Of those, 12 were from FTSE 100 companies and 25 from FTSE 250 companies.
本周Multiverse（由伊恩·布莱尔创立的伦敦培训平台）发布的一份独立报告表明，企业在将AI投资与现有员工结合方面遇到困难。“几乎没有人知道他们的员工能用AI做什么，而这就是他们的支出将被浪费的地方，”布莱尔说。该报告称，企业在AI工具上的支出增加，却没有培训员工如何使用它们。
A separate report published this week by Multiverse, the London-based training platform founded by Euan Blair, suggested firms are struggling to join up AI investments with their existing workers. “Almost none of them know what their people can do with AI, and that is where their spend is going to waste,” Blair said. The report said firms are spending more on AI tools without training their workers how to use them.