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Robots to take over many jobs
done by people, for good and bad
WASHINGTON: Robots and
artificially intelligent devices will
take over many jobs now done by
people, and experts are divided as
to whether their spread will do
human society more good than
harm.
The Pew Research Centre said
experts see a growing role for self-
driving cars, delivery drones, robotic
workers, smartphone-based
assistants and even algorithmic
journalism by 2025.
But they are divided on whether
these technological advances will be
helpful, with 48 per cent of
respondents to Pew’s survey saying
they will destroy jobs and increase
income inequality.
Nevertheless, a slim majority said
the technology will take over
undesirable tasks and generate new
kinds of human employment.
The report is not based on a
randomised poll sample, but instead
on an opt-in survey of people
deemed experts or affiliated with
certain organisations, taken between
November 2013 and January 2014.
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew
Research Internet Project,
saidexperts see “the accelerating
displacement of work that can be
done more efficiently and cost-
effectively” by robots.
This means “a transformation of
labour, especially in the fields of
transportation, fast food and
medicine; freedom from day-to-day
drudgery that allows people to
define work in a more positive and
socially beneficial way”. But Rainie
said many see this as leading to “a
shrinking of the middle class and
expansion of the ranks of the
unemployed”.
Automation is Voldemort:
“Automation is (the ‘Harry Potter’
villain) Voldemort: the terrifying
force nobody is willing to name,”
said Jerry Michalski, founder of
Relationship Economy eXpedition, a
think tank of corporate executives.
“The race between automation and
human work is won by automation,
and as long as we need fiat currency
to pay the rent/mortgage humans
will fall out of the system in droves
as this shift takes place.” Stowe
Boyd, lead researcher at GigaOM
Research, said the growing use of
autonomous vehicles will take away
important jobs for men such as truck
and taxi drivers.
“An increasing proportion of the
world’s population will be outside of
the world of work — either living on
the dole, or benefiting from the
dramatically decreased costs of
goods to eke out a subsistence
lifestyle,” he said.
“The central question of 2025 will
be: What are people for in a world
that does not need their labour, and
where only a minority are needed to
guide the ‘bot-based economy?’
“Justin Reich at Harvard University’s
Berkman Centre for Internet &
Society, said, robots and artificial
intelligence “will increasingly replace
routine kinds of work — even the
complex routines performed by
artisans, factory workers, lawyers, and
accountants. “Others were optimistic
such as JP Rangaswami, chief
scientist for Salesforce.com.
“The very nature of work will have
changed radically by 2025, but only
in economies that have chosen to
invest in education, technology and
related infrastructure,” he said.
“Some classes of jobs will be handed
over to the ‘immigrants’ of AI and
robotics, but more will be generated
in creative and curating activities as
demand for their services grows
exponentially.
“Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist
for Google, said: “Historically,
technology has created more jobs
than it destroys and there is no
reason to think otherwise in this
case. Someone has to make and
service all these advanced devices.
“The report is based on views from
nearly 1,900 respondents selected by
Pew because of their background.
They were affiliated to think tanks;
companies including Cisco Systems,
British Telecom and Microsoft;
universities such as the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; news organisations and
activist groups such as the
Electronic Privacy Information
Centre.
Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2014
Robots to take over many jobs done by people, for good and bad - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
done by people, for good and bad
WASHINGTON: Robots and
artificially intelligent devices will
take over many jobs now done by
people, and experts are divided as
to whether their spread will do
human society more good than
harm.
The Pew Research Centre said
experts see a growing role for self-
driving cars, delivery drones, robotic
workers, smartphone-based
assistants and even algorithmic
journalism by 2025.
But they are divided on whether
these technological advances will be
helpful, with 48 per cent of
respondents to Pew’s survey saying
they will destroy jobs and increase
income inequality.
Nevertheless, a slim majority said
the technology will take over
undesirable tasks and generate new
kinds of human employment.
The report is not based on a
randomised poll sample, but instead
on an opt-in survey of people
deemed experts or affiliated with
certain organisations, taken between
November 2013 and January 2014.
Lee Rainie, director of the Pew
Research Internet Project,
saidexperts see “the accelerating
displacement of work that can be
done more efficiently and cost-
effectively” by robots.
This means “a transformation of
labour, especially in the fields of
transportation, fast food and
medicine; freedom from day-to-day
drudgery that allows people to
define work in a more positive and
socially beneficial way”. But Rainie
said many see this as leading to “a
shrinking of the middle class and
expansion of the ranks of the
unemployed”.
Automation is Voldemort:
“Automation is (the ‘Harry Potter’
villain) Voldemort: the terrifying
force nobody is willing to name,”
said Jerry Michalski, founder of
Relationship Economy eXpedition, a
think tank of corporate executives.
“The race between automation and
human work is won by automation,
and as long as we need fiat currency
to pay the rent/mortgage humans
will fall out of the system in droves
as this shift takes place.” Stowe
Boyd, lead researcher at GigaOM
Research, said the growing use of
autonomous vehicles will take away
important jobs for men such as truck
and taxi drivers.
“An increasing proportion of the
world’s population will be outside of
the world of work — either living on
the dole, or benefiting from the
dramatically decreased costs of
goods to eke out a subsistence
lifestyle,” he said.
“The central question of 2025 will
be: What are people for in a world
that does not need their labour, and
where only a minority are needed to
guide the ‘bot-based economy?’
“Justin Reich at Harvard University’s
Berkman Centre for Internet &
Society, said, robots and artificial
intelligence “will increasingly replace
routine kinds of work — even the
complex routines performed by
artisans, factory workers, lawyers, and
accountants. “Others were optimistic
such as JP Rangaswami, chief
scientist for Salesforce.com.
“The very nature of work will have
changed radically by 2025, but only
in economies that have chosen to
invest in education, technology and
related infrastructure,” he said.
“Some classes of jobs will be handed
over to the ‘immigrants’ of AI and
robotics, but more will be generated
in creative and curating activities as
demand for their services grows
exponentially.
“Vint Cerf, chief Internet evangelist
for Google, said: “Historically,
technology has created more jobs
than it destroys and there is no
reason to think otherwise in this
case. Someone has to make and
service all these advanced devices.
“The report is based on views from
nearly 1,900 respondents selected by
Pew because of their background.
They were affiliated to think tanks;
companies including Cisco Systems,
British Telecom and Microsoft;
universities such as the
Massachusetts Institute of
Technology; news organisations and
activist groups such as the
Electronic Privacy Information
Centre.
Published in Dawn, August 7th, 2014
Robots to take over many jobs done by people, for good and bad - Newspaper - DAWN.COM
