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Robots Overtaking Jobs by 2025, Experts Split on Consequences

August 6, 2014 By Georgia Dawson Leave a Comment

The future of humanity lies in how we decide to produce, engage with and manage robots. By robots, we can understand a large range of technological entities with artificial intelligence. Since the eve of the first industrial revolution, humans struggled with how to introduce technological improvements in production without hurting employees? Well, most capitalists thought that technological innovations will increase profit, but recently we started posing publicly the question of technological unemployment more often than ever if that will happen, how should we deal with it? The robots overtaking jobs are our friends or enemies?

Pew Research Center Internet Project asked many researchers about precisely this topic. The exact question was: “Self-driving cars, intelligent digital agents that can act for you, and robots are advancing rapidly. Will networked, automated, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and robotic devices have displaced more jobs than they have created by 2025?”

Pew Research Center undertakes some interesting projects. About a month ago Pew released a report concerned on what threatens the Internet.

Robots overtaking jobs, friends or enemies?

Almost 1.900 experts answered the open-ended question. Initially, Pew sent the question to more than 12.000 experts from all over the world. Three expert categories were formed. The first contained experts who previously participated in other Pew researches. The second was formed out of members of professional associations studying internet trends, among others. The third category represents regular the Pew Internet Project newsletter subscribers. Bear in mind that this is not a representative study, so the results cannot be generalized. Moreover, about 84 percent of the respondents said they live in North America.

Robots Overtaking Jobs, what are the consequences?

The answers to the tricky question can easily be split in two opposing ideas. One is that robots will be a bad influence to the future employees, while the other opposes it. The first 48 percent of respondents think that the integration of robots and digital agents in the work field will increase income inequality. More than half, 52 percent, think that even if robots will take over some jobs prone to automatisation, humans will be able to find new ways of providing jobs and producing wellbeing, as we do have enough experience in the process so far.

One of the most recurring theme is that of education. Most respondents are concerned that the education system does not prepare students adequately for this fast-changing environment. There is a Henry Ford education in a Mark Zuckerberg world. We need to adapt to the new condition, the respondents warn so the robots overtaking jobs will help us, not threaten us.

 

Filed Under: Business Tagged With: employment, forecast, Pew Research Internet Center, robots, technological unemployment, unemployment

Pew Research Internet Center Conducts Study on Internet Threats

July 4, 2014 By Jack M. Robinson Leave a Comment

Pew Research Internet Center thinks that the internet is under threat. Why would that be the case? The advent of the internet age brought tremendous changes and some people managed to take huge advantages out of the transition to an internet society. Internet is one of the best things that ever happened, if not the best. Looking back, the 1990 and early 2000s were the wild days of the internet. Things have changed almost drastically. Regulation strongly pervades internet behavior, but that is not inherently a bad thing. For example, the FTC attempts to oblige Amazon to make every effort possible to protect their online clients. Now you have to live in a certain country to have access to a particular internet service like video streaming.

Pew Research Internet Center conducts study with experts

Pew Research Internet Project performed a study precisely on the topic. More than 1400 experts in the broad field of internet studies opted-in as respondents. They were asked to answer one questions and elaborate further: “By 2025 will there be significant changes for the worse and hindrances to the ways in which people get and share content online compared with the way globally networked people can operate online today?”

Pew Research Internet Center conducts study on internet threats

Sixty-five of the internet experts answered ‘No’, but the detailed answers mostly specified what they hope, not what they predict. In such a fast changing domain it would be almost foolish to aim for more. Pew Research Internet Center clustered the responses in four categories of threats. The first refers to the nation-states interventions in achieving more control over the internet through blockades and segmentations. Another suggests a loss of trust, consequence of revelations about mass surveillance undertook by both governments and corporations. The open structure of the net might be affected by commercial pressures, a third threat would be. The fourth threat is more elusively expressed and underscores the dangers of counteracting to the Too Much Information problem.

In a single sentence, the main threat is loss of democracy. It suggests that the internet used to be democratic, which is not entirely true. The present net-neutrality debate is just a facet of the problem. Facebook’s latest undercover mass study is another – Facebook thought it had so much legitimacy that did not even thought they would have to ask consent. Fact is the global digital divide is very sharp now, even if it is decreases as many people from developing states connect to the internet in a fast pace. We tend to think that access to the internet grants us instant equality, but the power relations are as asymmetrical as they are in real life.

Looking at the internet threats says a lot about how various understandings of what is happening often clash. Even if the internet is mostly portrayed as a medium, it is often perceived as an instrument. Like any other instrument, it can be used for a multitude of purposes by different powerful actors, and this debate triggered by Pew Research Internet Center aims at supporting a specific view.

Filed Under: Technology Tagged With: Internet regulation, Internet threats, Pew Research Internet Center

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