Artificial Intelligence

In this article, Thompson’s uses chess anecdotes to make it easier to understand why technology and our brains work together best. Steven Cramton and Zackary Stephen were two New England men who beat the most powerful chess computer. “Why could these relative amateurs beat chess players with far more experience and raw talent? Because Cramton and Stephen were expert at collaborating with computers. They knew when to rely on human smarts and when to rely on the machine’s advice.” (345) This experience shows us that Thompson's thinks that when it comes to technology versus man, you don’t

In today’s America, with robots on the rise, many people are feeling as if machines are threatening their jobs, and therefore their income, way of life, and basic stability. This is not an unreasonable fear. In 2013, Carl Frey and Michael Osborne with the University of Oxford predicted at as many as half the jobs in the United States could be automated within the next twenty years (Frey and Osborne). Even in the 1930s, economists such as John Maynard Keynes, the creator of Keynesian economics, predicted that technological developments could create economic climate that allows for a 15-hour work week with plenty of free time for the average American worker by the year 2030 (Thompson). The American workforce is shifting towards this prediction

This way of thinking is known to economist’s as the “nowhere to go” claim naming it the “Luddite Fallacy”. Inspired by the Luddites, who protested against the automation of textile work during the Industrial Revolution as mentioned before. Although automation has not, in fact, led to increased long-term unemployment the ever present possibility continues to become more realistic and not just numbers on a screen. What’s more, there are sound economic reasons for this, authenticated in basic economic theory. The reason why machines replace humans is that they increase productivity at a reduced cost. In other words, business can get more products more efficiently for less if they replace a human worker with a machine. However, there are versions of the luddite fallacy that make technology a solution to the rise in unemployment stating that the reduction of the costs of economic outputs on the open market will cause demand to go up. This increase in demand will animate the need or desire for more human workers, either to complement the machines in existing industries, or to assist entrepreneurial endeavors in new markets. However these demands for workers that “complement” the machines are nothing more than humans looking at a screen for 18 hours a day. I think this argument speaks for itself. For what it’s worth, when JM Keynes first coined the term “technological unemployment”, it

Because of the increasment of unemployment, poverty will follow the same trend. Poverty has been a major issue in the United States with hundred of efforts trying to win the war against it. By introducing automation in the nation, poverty will increase because there will be nowhere to get money form. Every single human job would be replaced by intelligent machines. Society in America will look destroyed, having the big businesses drown themselves with money, while the people fight to just get a portion of it. It will reflect a nation under monarchy, which is exactly what America wants to stay away

While Economists believe a new economy will eventually emerge in which machines will do much of the work now done by humans, but many new jobs will appear. However, both agree that the impact of these technologies on workers who have only the basic skills is likely to be

It seems that automation is the one thing that drastically will cause problems for the future, but also the one thing no one wants to address. Hearing it from business leaders it is obvious that this future is coming quickly and there needs to be drastic changes in how we think about work and what work is. You have an entire generation not wanting to adapt to the future and if they don't they might not make it. Trump seems to be encouraging development (which he should in my option) but offers no help or even a strategy for his base of workers (uneducated white voters) that are going to get hit the worst by this. This is vastly different from industrialization of the Late 1800’s. Jobs like manufacturing that has been around since the dawn of

We have already seen a decrease in jobs due to automation. Since 2000, the United States has lost 5 million factory jobs, while from 2006 to 2013, manufacturing grew by 17.6% (roughly 2.2% a year). 88% of those jobs were lost due to “productivity growth,” cites a study by Ball State University. The study also found that all sectors grew in terms of productivity by at least 32% from 1998 to 2012 when adjusted for inflation, with computer and electronic products rising 829%. In fact, the researchers found: “If 2000-levels of productivity are applied to 2010-levels of production, the U.S. would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers instead of the 12.1 million actually employed.” In summary, due to companies’ expenditures in automation and software, the output per U.S. manufacturing worker has doubled over the past two decades. Indeed, “the real robotics revolution is ready to begin,” according to the Boston Consulting Group, who predict “the share of tasks that are performed by robots will rise from a global average of around 10% across all manufacturing industries

This terrifying scenario necessitates a solution. Surprisingly, despite the imminent threat automation poses, experts have offered few solutions. The universal basic income is one of these few and seems to have the most merit. The idea is simple: fix people’s lack of income from automation by providing income through other means. Basically, the basic income is an unconditional monthly payment from the government to every citizen. Unconditionality means that no matter the constituent’s income or current employment, they will receive their basic income check. Its implementation would also likely eliminate other forms of government aid as the UBI would allow individuals to cover those costs. There are several proposed variations of the basic income,

Some science fiction authors have predicted horrible futures due to AI and robots taking over jobs and later humanity, but many writers like Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson (authors of The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies) dismiss this idea as one unlikely extreme. McAfee and Brynjolfsson describe in their book the nature of machines and manual labor as complements and how their slow delving into becoming economic substitutes as objectively good rather than negative. Businesses naturally do risk cutting automated jobs, but such a move would open an entire new field of jobs for humans to fix and build machines. In turn, businesses like RobotWorx argue that they can make more profit, increase wages for the quality of work from their skilled workers, and remain at the competitive level expected in the modern economic market (more extensive list can be found in their website here). Naturally, such statements beg the question that our economy would not crash because it would naturally adapt and shift due to the moves as it has when such inventions like the assembly line and textile mills came to invention.

Our world is advancing significantly in almost all component of life; education, technology, science, etc. However, these amazing advances present adverse effects that we will need to address if we hope to continue progressing forward. The rise of recent advances is particularly disadvantageous for people of working and lower socio-economic classes. More and more working class jobs are currently being lost to automation, and even more jobs will continue to be lost to automation. Living cost continue to rise, in a rapid manner when compared to the rise of minimum wage. The middle class is continuing to shrink and more people are falling into poverty. These major issues will impact everyone and are a detriment to society as whole. A Universal Basic Income (UBI) can serve to provide significant relief to these problems. Universal Basic Income is “basic income is an income paid by a political community to all its members on an individual basis, without means test or work requirement (Ackerman, Alstott, Bergmann, Parijs, & Wright, 4).” In an age of rising automation combined with a massively growing wealth inequality gap, a UBI is necessary to ensure that people receive an adequate quality of life. UBI will be an essential need for the future and for the betterment of society.

Although there was so much talk in the past eight years about how automation is going to take over the jobs, technology has not done much to impact the hours that humans have; in fact, robots taking over the jobs in the future is not a sure thing due to the lack of evidence. This is a great article because it furthered my knowledge about the topic. For example, I learned strategies people are using to help humans fight against automation. This article is about automation and how confident people are that robots will take over human’s jobs in the future. The argument that The Atlantic is making is that there is not much evidence that automation will take over; however, this can all change once a recession comes again. As we are on the brink

The main key points of the side that support the advancement of job automation is that AI will improve the standard of living, lower the prices of products, and encourage people to get higher education. As job automation progresses, so does the standard of living. The largest sector of the job industry that will be affected by job automation is the service sector, manufacturing, and many other jobs that do not require higher education. Since robots will replace these lower paying jobs that do not require much skill, the quality of life will increase. One negative effect is that there are numerous people that hold these positions in the lower paying industry that will lose

In today’s fast paced technologically savvy society, everyone wants the most advanced technology, this thirst for the next big thing is what makes technology fields the fastest changing and growing sectors. In countless movies, television shows, and novels, there is a representation of a humanoid character that is in fact a machine functioning and learning new skills with artificial intelligence. The problem with these shows is that the representation of modern day artificial intelligence is largely skewed, these machines have personalities and emotions making them relatable to humans when they are still just a very elaborate computer program. Artificial intelligence is the cognitive ability to solve problems, recognize patterns, and have

Over time our lives seem to have become more and more integrated with our technology. Some may say that this is a very bad thing because this change may result in the loss of jobs for millions of people. Jobs such as, cashiers, bankers, legal assistants, and maybe even taxi drivers. The future may appear bleak at first, but the truth of the matter is that robots taking over our simple and automatable jobs just mean that our jobs can evolve with the technology. A very similar thing happened during the industrial revolution when technologies were developed that massively increased the efficiency and yield of farming. This in turn led to a vast increase of food in the country which led to a lesser need for everyone to be a farmer. With a massive amount of food, former farm workers, and advanced technology, a business of mass production and manufacturing began. The loss of jobs due to technology led to a

A.I. must be developed to benefit all types of people. The problem with creating such an effective machine is that one machine will be able to do the jobs of several humans. As humans, we need to stay ahead of the game and prepare ourselves to work in different fields in years to come. Jobs such as watering, fast food restaurants, golf caddies, and many other simple yet required tasks will be overtaken by robots. These jobs will take away a lot of work for the lower class, which is why it will become vital to attend colleges and universities to better oneself and the skills one has in order to always be needed by society. The push for A.I. should go hand in hand with the push for human