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Members of the press are given a walking tour of the Ubisoft Philippines state-of-the-art studio, at the their headquarters The Finance Centre, in Bonifacio Global City, (BGC) Taguig City, June 21, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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Jauhn Etienne Villaruel

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:950px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/171997800520920240621-ubisoft-bgc-hq-JC-45.jpg" style="width:950px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Members of the press are given a walking tour of the Ubisoft Philippines state-of-the-art studio, at the their headquarters The Finance Centre, in Bonifacio Global City, (BGC) Taguig City, June 21, 2024. Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Members of the press are given a walking tour of the Ubisoft Philippines state-of-the-art studio, at the their headquarters The Finance Centre, in Bonifacio Global City, (BGC) Taguig City, June 21, 2024.<em> Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News</em><em></em></span></span></span></div><div><br/></div><p>MANILA — Sen. Joel Villanueva on Wednesday urged the government to speed up the crafting of a strategy to prevent a potentially catastrophic impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the Philippines&#x27; labor market.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/3/20/philippines-must-be-part-of-the-ai-revolution-marcos-says-1524">• Philippines must be part of the AI revolution, Marcos says</a></div><p>&quot;We welcome new technology to make work life easy and lift productivity, but this requires DOLE and other agencies to work double time to make our workforce technically adept and equipped. Otherwise, we would just be counting job losses,” said Villanueva, chairperson of the Senate&#x27;s labor panel.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/video/business/09/27/23/ai-boom-is-a-moment-of-upskilling-bpi-exec">• AI boom is a moment of upskilling: BPI exec</a></div><p>Villanueva specifically called on the <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA) to lead the way in strategizing the government&#x27;s AI roadmap. </span></p><div><span id="isPasted"><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">&quot;Our government agencies must develop a cohesive plan to manage the integration of new technologies into the labor market. The goal is to make sure that humans and machines can create better results when working together,&quot; the senator said.</span></span></div><div><span id="isPasted"><span id="isPasted"><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/3/11/philippines-seen-as-big-winner-in-ai-revolution-2049">• Philippines to be &#x27;big winner&#x27; in AI revolution: Freelancer platform</a></span></span></div><p>A Microsoft-led study released in May noted that the Philippines leads the world in terms of knowledge workers adopting generative AI, with 86 percent of them using AI at work. <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">This is higher than the global average of 75 percent and the regional average of 83 percent.</span></p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/2024/5/26/ph-leads-world-in-workers-using-ai-microsoft-philippines-1524">• PH leads world in workers using AI: Microsoft Philippines</a></div><p>However, the Microsoft study also found that Philippine companies were not as quick to adopt the technology, leading around 83 percent of Filipino AI users to bring their own AI to work.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/10/26/23/google-shows-off-generative-ai-productivity-cybersecurity-tools">• Google shows off generative AI productivity, cybersecurity tools</a></div><p>Villanueva has filed Senate Resolution No. 990 seeking to conduct an inquiry into the &quot;preparedness of the government to address the impact of artificial intelligence on the local labor market and the future of work.&quot;</p><div><span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">&quot;The global push for digitalization and the widespread use of Al in all industries necessitates the need for an examination of the government’s programs and projects to prepare the country’s workforce to fully embrace the challenges of Al,&quot; the resolution read.</span></div><p><span id="isPasted">In March, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. said the Philippines <span id="isPasted" style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">must act swiftly to embrace</span> AI, as he noted its potential to </span>uplift the lives of Filipinos.</p><div><a href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/business/11/16/23/ph-embracing-artificial-intelligence-marcos">• Philippines &#x27;embracing&#x27; future of artificial intelligence: Marcos</a></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xz8riRGqagU?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span></div>

<p>Sen. Joel Villanueva has filed a resolution seeking an inquiry into the government's preparedness to address AI's impact on the local labor market.</p>

Sen. Joel Villanueva has filed a resolution seeking an inquiry into the government's preparedness to address AI's impact on the local labor market.

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Senator wants probe into Philippines' readiness to address AI's labor impact

Jauhn Etienne Villaruel,

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Published Jul 03, 2024 12:30 PM PHT

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