AI is a ‘tool’ not a threat, F&P Healthcare tells shareholders

AI is a ‘tool’ not a threat, F&P Healthcare tells shareholders
Lewis Gradon is relaxed about AI. (Image: Supplied)
Ella Somers
Deep in the belly of Fisher & Paykel Healthcare’s Auckland premises, the medical products company told shareholders it didn’t need to worry about artificial intelligence.“It’s a very interesting question,” chief executive Lewis Gradon told the shareholder who wanted to know what effect and impact the board thought AI would have on the firm.Gradon said F&P Healthcare had first investigated AI 15 years ago. The company had a neural network running AI in the company’s current continuous positive air...

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