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“What happens to jobs when it’s not a stable unit of work anymore? What happens to workforce skills when knowledge is already free?”

Philip Amores, vice president for people and culture at KMC Solutions, opened the panel discussion dissecting the “AI Workforce” – or the shapeshifting nature of work and roles given the age of artificial intelligence – with these questions at this year’s SaaScon PH at the Marriott Grand Ballroom, Pasay City, on May 12.

With how job security has been a collective worry, these thought-starters aren’t even elephants in the room anymore. Nonetheless, they’re still here, lingering in organizations; hence, the importance of listening to human resource experts who are dealing with these shifts in real time.

Essentially, human-led innovation alongside AI has always been the core of the yearly SaaScon – the premier gathering of the B2B SaaS community bridging founders, tech leaders, and investors. This has long been put together by AI-enhanced HR, payroll, and embedded finance platform Sprout Solutions, which calls itself a “people-first AI platform”. But is it really possible to marry two seemingly disparate concepts?