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Will there be any jobs in the future?
This is the transcript from my podcast, Professor Andy Miah Faces the Future. If you’d rather listen, the click HERE
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https://anchor.fm/andymiah/episodes/Will-MACHINES-take-all-of-our-jobs-ekmajc/a-a3f76bj
Today, we’re talking about whether any of us can expect to have a job in the future or whether everything we currently do for work, will eventually be done by a machine.
It’s one of the age old anxieties about our technological world and a few years ago, a journalist asked me this question. In fact, he asked whether I thought that the rise of artificially intelligent robots would mean the end of all future jobs for humans and I thought to myself ‘why is it that this is the conclusion people reach when imagining how such machines will fit into our lives?’.
Why is there a presumption of our redundancy, quickly followed by the further projection that the machines will take over humanity?
Now, I know there’s something quite obvious about this, quite logical even. The argument goes that, if a machine can do something better than a human, then those who own the means of production — those who are the employers of these people, with wages to pay — will choose the more affordable option, which will likely be the machine.
