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If someone waits for more than an hour to get through to speak to a human about an issue that is too complex for the automated responses, they will lose faith and trust in that process.
That kind of work offers opportunities to young people who are seeing many of the industries that provided employment for previous generations become increasingly automated. Youth-led reform of our education system could create a generation of young people with flexible life and work skills that would enable them to adapt to the changing workplace as well a...
Biased attitudes linked to gender roles and identities are programmed into social media platforms through automated decision making. Therefore, algorithms and devices have the potential to spread and reinforce unwanted and harmful gender stereotypes, particularly when it comes to younger men.
I caution that productivity in certain sectors will not be the same as in, for example, highly mechanised and automated sectors. To compare life sciences with tourism, for example, will give a false picture.
I would not be overoptimistic that we would be able to draw particularly firm conclusions, simply because this is an enormously difficult area in which to pin down consequences to actions. There could be other actions such as insisting that everybody publishes their own tax details, for example, but I will move off that area of questioning.
We understand that the French government is offering tax rebates and help with interest payments on loans. In order to comply with State aid de minimis rules, support for individual enterprises is limited to 7,500 euros over a three year period.