A general view shows the body welding workshop which uses automated welding machine robots that assemble automobile bodies called white body (body before painting) at Toyota Motor’s Tsutsumi plant in Toyota, Aichi prefecture on December 4, 2014.(Photo cre
Maybe your worries about having a robotic overlord are not warranted in the short term, but losing a job to a robot might be a fact of life that’s just around the corner.
A new study predicts that up to a third of all American jobs will be lost to automation within the next 13 years.The study by McKinsey Global Institute, a think tank that specializes in business and economics, says that nearly 70 million U.S. workers would have to find new occupations by 2030. This will happen due to advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Machines will become better than humans at a variety of skills, including some that require cognitive abilities. Automated technologies will also be producing significantly fewer errors, allowing businesses to improve productivity, quality and speed. Employing humans will become an illogical option in some professions. People would need retraining or enter completely new fields, concludes the report’s co-author, Michael Chui, a partner…
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