Technological Unemployment: a Risk of Robots Taking Human Jobs

James Colbert

WRTG 394 ADVANCED BUSINESS WRITING

Technological Unemployment: A Risk of Robots Taking Human Jobs

10 October 2015

Summary

The Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people. A recent report from the Oxford Martin School’s Program m on the Impacts of Future Technology attempts to quantify the extent of that threat.

It concludes that 45 percent of American jobs are at high risk of being taken by computers within the next two decades. This would have the potential, to cause widespread panic and a phenomena called “technological unemployment”

Even though machine intelligence will not be able to measure up to the level of human intelligence, artificial intelligence growth will cost the us workforce a net 7% of all jobs over the next decade because artificial intelligence cannot succeed because machines lack emotion and we’re entering a “second machine age,” in which the accelerating rate of change has the potential to leave millions of medium- and low-skilled workers.

Even though Artificial Intelligence cannot succeed because machines lack the emotional content, machine intelligence will fall short of human intelligence. Emotions play a role in various human cognitive abilities and appears to be involved in selective attention, memory retrieval, and facial recognition. Studies estimate that an approximately 47% of US employment will be at high risk of being replaced by computers, which would cause a widespread phenomenon called “technological unemployment.”

If jobs disappear, this may cause or contribute to significant psychological and social stress, due to their livelihood being replaced by computers, robots, or artificial intelligence. Rapid advances in technology have long represented a serious potential threat to many jobs ordinarily performed by people because A.I. growth...