Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs?
But artificial intelligence is different, said Martin Ford, the author of “Rise of the Robots: Technology
and the Threat of a Jobless Future.” Machine learning does not just give us new machines to replace old machines, pushing human workers from one industry to another.
Consider how filmmakers used computer graphics to reanimate Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia and Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin as they appeared in the 1970s (never mind
that the Mr. Cushing died in 1994) for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”
My younger son Anton, a sweetheart, but tough as Kevlar, said he wanted to be a football player.
Rather, it gives us new machines to replace us, machines that can follow us to virtually any new industry we flee to.
Also known as Universal Basic Income, this sunny concept holds
that a robot-driven economy may someday produce an unlimited bounty of cool stuff while simultaneously releasing us from the drudgery of old-fashioned labor, leaving our government-funded children to enjoy bountiful lives of leisure as interpretive dancers or practitioners of bee-sting therapy, as touted by Gwyneth Paltrow.
The Associated Press already has used a software program from a company called Automated Insights to churn out passable copy covering Wall Street earnings
and some college sports, and last year awarded the bots the minor league baseball beat.
