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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

Technology is a vine creeping slowly, ready to engulf the whole of the Earth in years to come. It has been necessary to countless advances in the world, but many think that it could be a foreshadowing of something sinister. The belief in this underlying future has led to dichotomous interpretations of a technological domination. These often focus on robots with an artificial intelligence superior to human intelligence. They are able to defeat the human race, with their advanced, albeit artificial, thinking. It is not difficult to find someone or something ready to preach of the possibility of a robot apocalypse. While a total robot takeover is likely far off, robots are still altering the human world at a rapid rate.

In our race against the machines, it is causing the loss of jobs, income, and shelter which can lead to poverty. If a robot takes over, we are

In society, where it is already hard enough to obtain a job, the creation of AI will take away jobs from countless people. In total there will be a 47% loss of jobs and specifically in the

The article ‘Rise of the Machines’ is Not a Likely Future (2015), Michael Littman addresses the issue and worries that people have with regards to technology. The article attempts to persuade readers to believe that there is no need to fear technology as it is just not possible that they can overtake humanity. Zeynep Tufekci touches on the issue of machines taking over jobs of human, titled “The Machines are Coming (2015)”. She attempts to argue that there is no need to reject or blame technology for taking over jobs at the workplace. Littman’s argument is stronger than Tufekci as he provided logical reasoning due to a well balanced structure with consideration of opposable viewpoints with substantial evidence and effective usage of Pathos to appeal to the reader. Tufecki’s argument is weak due to the lack of evidence and her claim was only brought in at the end of her article which makes it seem very lop-sided.

Will robots take over the world? Will there be no need for humans at all in 50 years? Will the world be solely run by robots? The answers to these questions is no. Kevin Kelly’s essay title, “Better than Human: Why Robots Will- and Must- Take Our Jobs” gives us clear reasons not to fear robots, but to eagerly await their robot “takeover” which in his opinion has “already begun” (301). Kelly gives many clear and insightful facts from our past, present and predicted future about robots and the innovation that is to change our world for the better. While Kelly’s essay thoroughly persuades the reader that robots are all good, we should not jump to utopian conclusions. Robots will take many of our current jobs. In the past, innovation has taken certain jobs and replaced them with totally new positions that we could never have imagined. We must be ready for unemployment to rise in many levels of the economy because robots will replace diverse sections of labor from taxi drivers and house cleaners to pharmacists and surgeons.

The trucking industry is the lifeblood of the U.S. economy. Nearly 70% of all the freight tonnage moved in the U.S. goes on trucks. Without the industry and our truck drivers, the economy would come to a standstill. To move 9.2 billion tons of freight annually requires nearly 3 million heavy-duty Class 8 trucks and over 3 million truck drivers. It also takes over 37 billion gallons of diesel fuel to move all of that freight. Simply – without trucks, America stops. (trucking.org)

Compared to last century, workers in manufacturing jobs feel more threatened by automation than ever before. While the number of jobs eliminated by automation continues to increase, employers are also less willing to create jobs. In the article "Special report: Automation puts jobs in peril," Nathan Bomey, a business reporter for USA Today, explores the current position of manufacturing workers. In the article, Bomey explains how, "about 58% of CEOs plan to cut jobs over the next five years because of robotics, while 16% say they plan to hire more people because of robotics" (3). Only the United States Government has the power to create a solution to the quandary of workers affected by the switch to technology in the workforce.

My friends and I decided we wanted McDonald's for lunch one day, and what do we see as we walk inside? Robots taking orders; I was shocked! I always knew it was a possibility that robots would eventually take over workplaces, but I never thought it would be so soon. The whole concept of this is terrifying. A major thing I am concerned about is when do workers need to start worrying about the possibility of robots taking over and if there will be an alternative situation to receive income? How long will it be before technology advances so far that we won't even need janitors or human construction workers? Technological advancements in businesses are stripping away low wage jobs, adding new requirements for low wage employees, and creating a need for a solution to secure the poor economy.

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

these robots and/or be the ones coding them in the future (Wohl). Thus, it is becoming

For example, a 2013 study done by Oxford University identified the most likely jobs to be automated. This list was led by professions such as data entry keyers, tax preparers, cargo and freight agents, loan officers, and telemarketers (Frey and Osborne 76-77). In addition, the McKinsey Global Institute conducted a “study of 46 countries and 800 occupations” and found that “up to 800 million global workers will lose their jobs by 2030” to robotic automation; that is one fifth of the global work force (“Robot Automation”). In the U.S, that number is 39 to 73 million jobs, and only “20 million of those displaced workers may be able to easily transfer to other industries” (“Robot Automation”). This was initially predicted in 1930 by John Maynard Keynes when he stated in an essay named “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren”, that “unemployment due to our discovery of means of economising the use of labour” will overtake “the pace at which we can find new uses for labour,” a process he labeled “technological unemployment” (Keynes 325). Essentially, the speed at which technological advancements are replacing workers is faster than the speed at which society can reemploy these workers. With the advancements in robotics and AI today, we are witnessing this prediction come

However, with a developed AI system, autonomous robots will be able to perform these tasks with little to no supervision from humans. At the same time, because an artificially intelligent robot will be capable of much more than humans in the future, its body not getting tired or slowing down exponentially due to old age, many fear that a large majority of our jobs will be supplanted. Professional roles such as doctors, lawyers and accountants could be replaced by artificial intelligence by the year 2025 (Shaping Tomorrow 2014).

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

Today, there are so many new developments in technology around the world. This means that the places we work in are changing as well. Things may be easier. As technology advances even more in the future, jobs may be more limited. People may need higher education. We may not even need people to do the jobs anymore. Robots might be doing it all!