microrobert
05-20-2013, 09:27 AM
Robots will take our jobs, but it’s hard to say when
Economists and management experts have begun to model what might happen when robots are smart enough to do our jobs for us. Erik Brynjolfsson (http://ebusiness.mit.edu/erik/) and Andrew McAfee (http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/mcafee/) argue in their book Race Against the Machine (http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/) that yes, robots are taking some jobs now, and will take more jobs soon. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says the rise of the robots (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/rise-of-the-robots/) will diminish the value of skills and education relative to capital. Economist Karl Smith claims (http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/05/13/inequality-in-the-robot-future/) the transition to robot labor will be “more transformative than the Industrial Revolution.”
Why worry about this issue now? A commonly (http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns) cited (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html) reason (http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation) is that a couple more decades of exponential increases in computing power (dubbed “Moore’s Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law)“) will give us the computational power of the human brain. Hence, the robot revolution is just around the corner.
Robots will take our jobs, but it?s hard to say when ? Quartz (http://qz.com/85825/robots-may-take-our-jobs-but-its-hard-to-say-when/)
Economists and management experts have begun to model what might happen when robots are smart enough to do our jobs for us. Erik Brynjolfsson (http://ebusiness.mit.edu/erik/) and Andrew McAfee (http://blogs.hbr.org/hbr/mcafee/) argue in their book Race Against the Machine (http://www.amazon.com/Race-Against-Machine-Accelerating-Productivity/dp/0984725113/) that yes, robots are taking some jobs now, and will take more jobs soon. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says the rise of the robots (http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/rise-of-the-robots/) will diminish the value of skills and education relative to capital. Economist Karl Smith claims (http://www.forbes.com/sites/modeledbehavior/2013/05/13/inequality-in-the-robot-future/) the transition to robot labor will be “more transformative than the Industrial Revolution.”
Why worry about this issue now? A commonly (http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-law-of-accelerating-returns) cited (http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/vinge/misc/singularity.html) reason (http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-intelligence-jobs-automation) is that a couple more decades of exponential increases in computing power (dubbed “Moore’s Law (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law)“) will give us the computational power of the human brain. Hence, the robot revolution is just around the corner.
Robots will take our jobs, but it?s hard to say when ? Quartz (http://qz.com/85825/robots-may-take-our-jobs-but-its-hard-to-say-when/)