United Kingdom, March 23 -- Artificial intelligence (AI) is set to create "a new type of economy", according to an industry expert.

Zhanna Zhuravleva, resident CPO at consultancy People and Transformational HR, insists that shunning AI is no longer an option for aspirational businesses.

Zhuravleva told HR Magazine: "It would be far stranger if leading consulting brands did not push hard on AI capability.

"In this context, much of the negative media reaction looks to me like the voice of an orthodox world that does not yet grasp we are moving into a new type of economy, where the very context of work is being rebuilt."

This comes after Paul Griggs, the US boss of management consultancy PwC, recently warned that employees must be prepar...