In English class, my peers and I read an article from the New York Times titled, "The End of Work?" by Ji Shisan. The article introduced the possibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) taking over jobs and businesses. Researchers have discovered a way to program electronicsto "think" for themselves through trail and error– just how a child would. Consequently, professional workers are starting to think AI might take over their jobs. However, AI isn't "strong" yet. It can only learn and do simple tasks. Although, AI will not takeover all jobs because AI can't work in jobs "that require a broad range of abilities and human intuition such as nursing childcare and sales." Many workers that feel threatened may go back to school to receive a new career. In my opinion, AI might be useful to companies because companies will no longer need workers. Since AI will be doing all of the work companies …show more content…
The breakthrough is so promising to AI because once AI starts you can't cut it off. However, the breakthrough is not promising to white-collar workers because many of them will lose their jobs when AI takes over. Even though AI can be devastating to most workers. Humans can still be competitive in the job market by getting jobs that require a wide range of skills. Also, Humans are very creative and adapt easily to their surroundings– unlike AI. With these traits even if the "AI Revolution" does leave many workers jobless, many people will soon find a way to stay in the job market. In the far future when all jobs are taken over by AI humans can start using this time to improve relations with one another and God. Also, Humans will not devolve or grow unintelligent because man is always searching for knowledge. Similarly humans will not become lazy and fat because many people love to be in shape and because there are no more jobs, people can spend more time being
Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near
In society, where it is already hard enough to obtain a job, the creation of AI will take away jobs from countless people. In total there will be a 47% loss of jobs and specifically in the
In “Better Than Human,” Kevin Kelly, Senior Maverick of Wired Magazine, insists that automation will allow us to become more human. When society grants automation the permission to complete the most menial tasks, it will allow individuals trapped in dead-end careers such as fastening bolts onto cars, to search for their true passions which only humans can accomplish. More people will be able to pursue jobs that robots, for now, can not complete with ease. Kelly believes that as artificial intelligence and the creators of it advance, more jobs will be created to fulfill society's growing needs. The simple tasks of assembling new machinery can be completed by the already established automation; while the job of developing software that controls
Some science fiction authors have predicted horrible futures due to AI and robots taking over jobs and later humanity, but many writers like Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson (authors of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies) dismiss this idea as one unlikely extreme. McAfee and Brynjolfsson describe in their book the nature of machines and manual labor as complements and how their slow delving into becoming economic substitutes as objectively good rather than negative. Businesses naturally do risk cutting automated jobs, but such a move would open an entire new field of jobs for humans to fix and build machines. In turn, businesses like RobotWorx argue that they can make more profit, increase wages for the quality of work from their skilled workers, and remain at the competitive level expected in the modern economic market (more extensive list can be found in their website here). Naturally, such statements beg the question that our economy would not crash because it would naturally adapt and shift due to the moves as it has when such inventions like the assembly line and textile mills came to invention.
Intelligent machines are slowly taking over jobs from the human race. Washingtonpost.com states that almost half of the employed population in the US is at risk of being taken over by machines, showing that they are already taking jobs in transportation, logistics and administrative occupations. This shows that these intelligent machines are on the climb of taking over the occupational world. Therefore, the world as a whole needs to realize what the cost of these machines will be in the future. Like the saying goes: just because something can be done, doesn’t mean it should be done.
One of the biggest controversies with the advancement of artificial intelligence is the debate on job automation. Many people believe that artificial intelligence will advance to become better than humans and replace humans in most jobs. The opposite belief is that AI will be used to improve the standard of living and will be a tool to support humans, not replace them. Job automation has many benefits such as performing more dangerous jobs and complete tasks that humans do not desire to do. Even though job automation has benefits, there are many people who believe robots will take over the job market and the unemployment rate will skyrocket. There are multiple supporting factors for each side of the job automation debate, but the argument will never be settled until AI is further advanced and utilized.
Many people fear that adding AI to industries will mean a decrease in jobs, which it will. Many fields will feel the effect of AI, if not today, in the near future. Assembly lines that once contained humans, now contain robots. Check-out clerks at stores are gradually being replaced with self check-out machines. Bank tellers aren't used as often because of the ease of automated teller machine (ATM) banking. In fact, some banks charge a fee if you use their tellers for transactions that can be made at an ATM. In the previous section, it was stated that AI
When AI comes a lot of people will be without a job. Doesn't it sounds amazing to not
Machines now work better than humans at job types all across the spectrum. They outpace us by far in the field of low-skill,
Since before the standing of the Luddites, society has had a fear of technology and it’s advances into the job market. According to Volti, (2012), job security is an important factor is people’s satisfaction in life and on the job (p. 199), and with the threat of anyone or thing taking over is extremely unsettling. During the Industrial Revolution, people saw technology advancing and replacing people in factories which enhanced fears of a complete take over. Decades have passed and we have not seen the overtaking by these machines because the machines are dependent on human maintenance and programing, but with the fast, exponential rate of the advancement of artificial intelligence, will technology finally encroach on most positions now held by humans? There are arguments on both sides of the line, some stating new positions will be created with the help of technology, others say humans are doomed and the robot takeover is closer than we think. Whichever side of the line they lean towards, one thing they all agree upon is that robots, artificial intelligence will be a common site in most all fascist of society.
This represents how the AI will, for sure, take a whole bunch of job opportunities which will increase the efficiency but the workers will not benefit as they will lose their jobs. This is one of the best-case scenarios that helps explain the decrease in the future in the workplace employment if Artificial Intelligence gets developed to a point where it can fully function as a human. As Siri and other artificial intelligence applications have already decreased the need of having a personal assistant, it just keeps on proving : artificial intelligence will decrease the workplace opportunities as it develops.
Artificial Intelligence is a topic within the public media that has existed for decades, but is now a concern due to the reality of human advancement and innovation in the field of science and technology. Many people believe that computers will become self-aware or sentient and view humanity as a disposable resource and gain supremacy. Reasoning that research on the technology should halt and not become more advance. Whereas others believe they will help catapult research and the economy forward, supporting the operations and innovations the technology offers. The complicated and divided solutions to the debate aren’t obvious, but there are more benefits to improving artificial intelligence than there is stopping it. Therefore, the negative effects people believe will occur can be resolved.
halt as civilians commit crimes for the opportunity to go to prison, where they will be fed and housed. Businesses that were too late to adopt AI get overshadowed by competitors and monopolies emerge. Riots break out on the streets as workers fight for their jobs, the welfare system collapses because of the surge in cost. The education system becomes even more selective as only highly desirable skill sets are needed, and thousands of students graduate and can't find a job. The 1% gets richer, as the world descends into chaos, not because AI took over, but instead because we were too ignorant to prepare for the inevitable.
Most experts agree that Artificial Intelligence is on the increase in various fields. It has become one of the most controversial scientific issues of the twenty-first century. It raises the unemployment rate, workers will not find enough jobs for them and some of them may lose their work. As a result of technology, according to Wilson, Daugherty and Bianzino (2017), "The threat that automation will eliminate a broad swath of jobs across the world economy is now well established. As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become ever more
Innovations in technology from the Industrial Revolution to today have changed work and the workplace. Robots and other automated machines do many human jobs. One study concluded that about 50 percent of US workers could be replaced by robots in the next 10 to 20 years (Jones, 2016, para. 3). Even though robots will replace some jobs done by humans, there will be new and higher skilled jobs for workers.