Kaplan Discusses The Threat to Workers Via Automation - It Is Inevitable
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Saul Kaplan of Business Innovation Factory says automation — the increased usage of robots and implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)— is inevitable in the workplace.
His comments come on the heels of Darrell Wests’ new book was released “The Future of Work: Robots, AI, and Automation.” West is the Vice President and director of governance studies and the founding director of the Center for Technology Innovation at Brookings and a former Brown University Professor.
Kaplan says that the pace of the change may be far sooner than people anticipate. He made the remarks while appearing on GoLocal LIVE’s Business Monday with GoLocal’s CEO and co-founder Josh Fenton.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTAccording to Oxford University researchers Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, technology aspects of work. They studied 702 occupational groupings and found that “47 percent of U.S. workers have a high probability of seeing their jobs automated over the next 20 years.”
That number and others are cited by West. A Pew Research Center study asked 1,896 experts about the impact of emerging technologies and found “half of these experts (48 percent) envision a future in which robots and digital agents [will] have displaced significant numbers of both blue- and white-collar workers—with many expressing concern that this will lead to vast increases in income inequality, masses of people who are effectively unemployable, and breakdowns in the social order.”
Kaplan says that workers need to learn and expand their skill sets. And, understand the change is coming — maybe sooner than many anticipate.
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