Both. It’s an opportunity if done correctly but it won’t be. They are automating as much as they can on the cheap which dosent always work out and there is nothing to protect the people losing jobs because of it.
Depends how it’s implemented.
It could free us from huge amounts of unnecessary labour, and completely transform society. We could have a world where people only need to work as long as they want to, or perhaps just a few hours a week in roles that can’t really be automated.
Or it could make about 6 people richer than god, and make the rest of us into a serf underclass.
Given how currently available automation technologies and other labour saving devices have massively increased employee productivity, but haven’t increased salaries or reduced hours worked in kind, I think the latter scenario is more likely.
Same old same old, threat for the poor, opportunity for the rich
Industry has been transfering to automated since the 80’s. Question for people – do you think jobs have been reduced or increased since this started or has technology created more jobs to replace these positions ?
To be clear I don’t wish to see millions of jobs taken however I think this subject does bring out neo-luddism in people.
Obviously automation is often painted as dystopian mass replacement of huge swathes of the workforce but often it’s far more mundane than that.
A lot of transcription services for a law firm I worked for were replaced with speech to text software with a single member of staff doing minor corrections, a tonne of transcriptionists simply retired and were not replaced.
It’s sort of a blessing as they were struggling to find decent transcriptionists for years.
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Both. It’s an opportunity if done correctly but it won’t be. They are automating as much as they can on the cheap which dosent always work out and there is nothing to protect the people losing jobs because of it.
Depends how it’s implemented.
It could free us from huge amounts of unnecessary labour, and completely transform society. We could have a world where people only need to work as long as they want to, or perhaps just a few hours a week in roles that can’t really be automated.
Or it could make about 6 people richer than god, and make the rest of us into a serf underclass.
Given how currently available automation technologies and other labour saving devices have massively increased employee productivity, but haven’t increased salaries or reduced hours worked in kind, I think the latter scenario is more likely.
Same old same old, threat for the poor, opportunity for the rich
Industry has been transfering to automated since the 80’s. Question for people – do you think jobs have been reduced or increased since this started or has technology created more jobs to replace these positions ?
To be clear I don’t wish to see millions of jobs taken however I think this subject does bring out neo-luddism in people.
Obviously automation is often painted as dystopian mass replacement of huge swathes of the workforce but often it’s far more mundane than that.
A lot of transcription services for a law firm I worked for were replaced with speech to text software with a single member of staff doing minor corrections, a tonne of transcriptionists simply retired and were not replaced.
It’s sort of a blessing as they were struggling to find decent transcriptionists for years.