Project Planning

Part A

With job automation, robots will take over many low skilled jobs leaving many people unemployed and unable to find jobs in the future because they lack the necessary skills. This will lead to a future where people will be without jobs due to job automation and we would have to figure out where to go from there. 

Part B

Main argument: With job automation leaving an increasing population unemployed, society needs to change in order for us to be happy in the future.

Quotations

“Economy needs to create tens of thousands of new jobs every month just to keep pace with population growth and prevent unemployment rates from rising even further.”

“About one-third of the U.S. labor force (53 million Americans) who provide these services are freelancers, that is, part-time workers without benefits.”

“Baldwin offers three-part advice: 1. avoid competing with A.I. and R.I.; 2. build skills in things only humans can do, in person; 3. “realize that humanity is an edge not a handicap.”

“Over the past decade, machine learning has progressed such that automated algorithms are already widely used for writing newsflashes, reports, and even novels; searching for precedential cases in law firms; diagnosing diseases; and even—strikingly—discovering laws of nature.”

“The task confronting every economy, particularly advanced economies, will likely be to retrain and redeploy tens of millions of midcareer, middle-age workers.”

Story/event

With the increase in technology robots are subject to job automation. Jobs that can be taken over by robots are often jobs that are predictable and require very little skills and qualifications. However, the modern age technology can develop robots that are capable to automate white-collar jobs such as doctors and businessmen. With this prospect, we will need to create solutions to keep our jobs. An issue with job automation is how will it change everything we know about society today and what our future would be like if we do have a jobless future?