As I was reading the Room for Debate article, "Is Artificial Intelligence Taking Over Our Lives," I thought about the amount of job losses. There are lots of different types of AI, there are some who are programmed to play a game of ping pong or chess and others that bring towels or snacks to your hotel room. But what about the more sophisticated ones that are programmed to improve certain things. AI could be used to fix elevators or be cashiers, the possibilities are endless. However this brings up the question as to what would happen to our jobs. While artificial intelligence could make our lives potentially easier, it could lead to plenty of job losses.
Garry Kasparov says "one person's liberated is another person's unemployed." I completely agree with his point. While there may be more job opportunities into programming the AI, not everyone is capable of doing that. Many people may not have been great students but are great handy persons. They know how to fix things or work with their hands. But if AI replaces these jobs many people are left unemployed. We have to really think about these advances in technology we keep trying to make. If we let AI continue to improve, it could eventually leave all of us without a job and we would be taken over by this artificial intelligence. What are your thoughts on this matter?
-Benjamin Sanchez
It's truck drivers that will be hurt first. Self-driving cars are right around the corner.
ReplyDeleteI think that many of the basic factory and labor jobs will be taken over. This may be a huge problem because handy work is the structure of our society. This could turn into a economic crisis because of job loss which can turn into increased rates of poverty.So I think many jobs that require basic physical labor are in danger.
ReplyDeleteRobots are already in factories...I left the private sector in 1998, and we had robots on the manufacturing floor.
ReplyDeleteAI will take over the jobs that don't really require any special skills or talents like driving or being a cashier since those basic task can be don't by AI, but better and cheaper so businesses will obviously invest in them. AI will also take over the jobs that put people under dangerous conditions like photography on the battlefield of a war or photos of massive storms. Eventually as we develop AI and as humanity gets lazier we will eventually develop AI to do everything for us instead of us doing it ourselves leading to AI just taking over all our jobs.
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