Robots Vs Robots

Robots can effect employment in a negative way,as said by the author Kelly “It may be hard to believe… 70 percent of today’s occupation will likewise be replaced by automation...even you will have your job taken away by machines”(Kelly Page.300), this quote comes to show the negative aspect of robots taking over the world in the near

In her article “Are Humans Necessary”, Margaret Atwood stated lots of facts and concerns about robots in future.

Can anyone imagine a factory rid of workers and filled with robots? In the course of the next few decades it may be possible and technology replacing the jobs of hardworking people in the U.S. is an all-around controversial topic. Eventually, it will be an epidemic that will need to be resolved in the near future. Even though it may seem impossible, the age of new technology and no humans is coming.

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

Currently, there are jobs that robots can do better than humans, such as weaving and car manufacturing (Kelly 306). Again, when those machines first came to fruition, they eliminated human jobs, but then created jobs. Additionally, there are jobs that humans simply cannot do without robots such as making computer chips (Kelly 306). Looking toward the future, Kelly concludes that if we collaborate with machines and allow them to take over, we will “let them help us dream up new work that matters” (Kelly 312).

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.

“The Robot Invasion” written by Charlie Gillis in an article which informs the reader of current uses and capabilities of robots as well as elaborating on the expectation of advancement of robotic technology in the future. Though the reader never learns of the author’s professional background or experience on the subject, he uses evidence provided by numerous scientists and professionals in the field to lend credibility to the article. Throughout the reading, the audience is given the idea that while it is inevitable that robots will become commonplace in the future, there is adequate time to adjust education and skills to fit the needs of the future because of the current limitations of robots. Another point which is made is the thought that humans will be needed to work with the robots of the future, performing various tasks to keep them up to date and in working order. This information creates optimism for human job opportunities in the future for those who may be worried about a world in which they could become obsolete in the workplace. The subject of robots is relevant to issues that exist in society today. Not only are scientists tirelessly working to advance technology, robots have already made their way into everyday life and this is creating much optimism and hope for the future as well as stoking fears of those who believe that their livelihood is being threatened. Everyone has the potential to be affected by the anticipated changes which makes this article

Claude Elwood Shannon once said: “I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans. And I am rooting for the machines”. A lot has changed in our world since Shannon passed away in 2001, and the world of robotics has become more important than ever. In His article “Better than Human: Why Robots Will-and Must-Take Our Jobs”, Kevin Kelly discusses how robots and machines have been taking over our jobs and how this will only become more common in our everyday lives. He believes it is a good and necessary thing that AI take over our jobs, because it will improve our society and increase productivity.

In the nineteenth century, the industrial revolution kickstarted centuries worth of progress and automation that created the world that we live in today. Machines now do jobs faster and better than humans ever did back then. Kevin Kelly in his essay “Better Than Human: Why Robots Will—and Must—Take Our Jobs” suggests that in the coming years robots and automation will continue to replace humans in varying career fields. This change may cause many people to worry, but Kelly argues that this change is actually positive and will cause mankind to advance further than we ever thought we could. Kelly uses many examples and situations to explain his stance, and they back up his argument very well.

In the article “Better Than Human: Why Robots Will- and Must- Take Our Jobs,” Kevin Kelly tells his audience about what is going to happen with robots in the future. He shows us how robots are beginning to be more advanced and are going to start taking jobs from humans. Kelly talks about the growth from the past century, the upcoming growth that robots will take, and how smart they are becoming.

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

Yes in the near future, I believe that robots will replace humans relative to work. The reason being is when large companies/firms replace their employees with robots, they do not have to worry about paying salaries or compensation anymore. According to Andrew McAfee(https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_what_will_future_jobs_look_like?language=en#t-221607), not only will technology take over our jobs, technology/robots will provide efficiency, quality, and an “explosion,” in volume. Why would the owners, executives of the company want to pay for labor when they don’t have to? From McAfee’s(https://www.ted.com/talks/andrew_mcafee_what_will_future_jobs_look_like?language=en#t-221607) graph from Race Against the Machine’s shows us that Since

Currently, “about 47 percent of the U.S. workforce is at risk of becoming obsolete due to automation” (Castellano 22). A workerless future is not as farfetched as it once was. With the rapid advancements of technology, robots have been more effective and efficient than ever. Posing a big problem within the nation, more and more companies are acquiring robots as they are more cost efficient than regular laborers. This has political leaders worrying about the potential detrimental effects it could have on the US economy. Since 2000, the number of manufacturing jobs has fallen by almost 5 million (Thompson 53). Which equates to a loss of 300,000 human manufacturing jobs each year. At this rate, millions of people could be unemployed by the year

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

With space travel being a topic much looked at since the middle of the 20th century, it is only inevitable that man has already entered space and taken that step into space travel. However, even though man has done so before, it does not necessarily man should continue to do what can be done by the technological advantages of this age; robots. Having the ability to send exclusively robotic missions into space provides many advantages that a human accompanied mission could not also have claim to, one obvious variation being in the safety of a robotic mission versus a manned mission. Humans are fragile when it comes to being put into environments other than their own (Colwell & Britt, n.d.) and there are a lot of physical health setbacks. When in zero-g in space, human bodies face many changes such as a sudden height increase, and even face a weakening of the bones that can later lead to bones breaking much easier from even small accidents (“Manned or Unmanned?”, 2001). Humans also face the risk of being exposed to radiation when there is no atmosphere surrounding them to protect them (“Manned or Unmanned?”, 2001) and the temperatures of different planets and elements of space make it nearly impossible for a human to be able to travel to certain places (Colwell & Britt, n.d). Robots, however, do not face this kind of setback and are much more tolerant to the environment outside of earth’s atmosphere. Human lives are also at risk when in space, and can be lost very quickly due