Experts Divided On What Impact Robots And AI Will Have On Human Employment b4in.org/r7MY Nearly half of all industry experts believe that robots and artificial intelligence will displace a significant number of both blue-collar and white-collar workers by 2025, and many of them are concerned that this phenomenon will result in vast increases in income inequality and a large percentage of humans who are all but unemployable. Forty-eight percent of the nearly 1,900 research scientists, business leaders, academic researchers and other technology experts polled by the Pew Research Internet Project predicted that this dire future will soon become a reality. The other 52 percent of responders do not believe that technology such as self-driving automobiles and intelligent digital agents will displace more jobs than it creates within the next 11 years. This group, Pew explained, believes that the jobs currently performed by humans will be assumed by robots or AI applications, but that the ingenuity of men and women will develop new industries and find new ways to make a living. “These two groups also share certain hopes and concerns about the impact of technology on employment,” Pew’s Aaron Smith and Janna Anderson said. “For instance, many are concerned that our existing social structures – and especially our educational institutions – are not adequately preparing people for the skills that will be needed in the job market of the future.” “Conversely, others have hope that the coming changes will be an opportunity to reassess our society’s relationship to employment itself – by returning to a focus on small-scale or artisanal modes of production, or by giving people more time to spend on leisure, self-improvement, or time with loved ones,” they added. More b4in.org/r7MY
Posted on: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 17:24:21 +0000