Richard Kimber believes artificial intelligence solutions will allow us to be more creative during the time we spend at work. Credit:Gregg Porteous

It doesn’t sound like a good news story: your job as you know it may soon be taken over by a robot. Even if the role still exists in 10 years time, it’s likely that automation will change it significantly. Is it not a cause for concern?

While many of us may occasionally ponder the take up of artificial intelligence in Australian workplaces, chances are we don’t contemplate it as often as the founder of Australian AI software company Daisee, Richard Kimber.

Kimber, who formally held a regional managing director role at Google, has spent years watching the progress of AI. But unlike most observers of the trend he also decided to start a business helping companies implement it.

‘‘There’s two perspectives. On the dark side people say AI will take away roles. On the positive side there are enormous numbers of new jobs being created,’’ Kimber says.