Report: Robots Will Take Over More Jobs Than They Create
Report: Robots Will Take Over More Jobs Than They Create
August 8, 2014 10:17 PM
ELON, N.C. (CBS Charlotte) – What will our future with
robots be like? Will we live side by side, humans and mechanicals engaged in
productive economic activity? Or will today’s work helpers be tomorrow’s
electronic overlords?
That’s the question posed to about 1,800 industry experts
by the Pew Research Internet Project and the Elon University’s Imagining the
Internet Center.
Half the experts predicted robotic technology will create
more jobs that it takes away with the other half warning that many more of the
tasks we perform today will be taken over by artificial intelligence, reports
Live Science.
“There was obviously no clear consensus at all among the
folks surveyed,” said Aaron Smith, a senior researcher at the Pew Research
Center’s Internet Project and lead author of the report.
Nearly all the experts said things like driverless cars,
robotic doctors and nurses and intelligent digital agents would be a part of
daily life by 2025.
But they were evenly divided over whether this would be a
boon or a curse for human beings.
52 percent of respondents said that historically
technology has ultimately created more jobs than it has displaced. They said
people will find other forms of work that only human beings can perform; that
the technological advances will give us all more time and energy to do more
meaningful work.
But the other 48 percent fear that the roll of artificial
workers will be unstoppable and that humans will not be able to adjust in time
to avoid massive unemployment and social disruption.
A majority of the respondents did agree that the best way
to make future technologies work for us is to improve education and training
for all people.
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