Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus
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Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus

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The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Conventional wisdom says there will be new jobs to replace those we lose – but is it so simple? And are we ready? Technology writer and think-tank director Nigel Cameron argues it's naive to believe we face a smooth transition. Whether or not there are "new" jobs, we face massive disruption as the jobs millions of us are doing get outsourced to machines. A twenty-first-century "rust belt" will rapidly corrode the labor market and affect literally hundreds of different kinds of jobs simultaneously. Robots won't design our future – we will. Yet shockingly, political leaders and policy makers don't seem to have this in their line of sight. So how should we assess and prepare for the risks of this unknown future?

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Publisher
Polity
Year
2017
ISBN
9781509509591
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Index

    • ABS (antilock braking system) as example of robotic driver over-ride
    • affective computing
    • A.I. Artificial Intelligence (film, 2001)
    • AirBnB letting as new job
    • Alexander, Bryan, futurist
    • Apple
      • and self-driving cars
    • Artificial General Intelligence
    • ATMs
    • Auerswald, Philip, critique of Martin Ford
    • autonomous vehicles, see self-driving cars
    • Autor, David, “Why Are There Still So Many Jobs?”
    • Bear, The (film, 1988)
    • Bessen, James, Learning by Doing
    • board membership and Machine Intelligence
    • Boyd, Stowe, on leisure
    • Brain, Marshall
    • Brynjolfsson, Erik and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age
    • car ownership among millennials
    • car ownership and self-driving vehicles
    • car utilization in the US
    • career choices and roboticization
    • Carnegie Mellon University
    • cascading effects of Machine Intelligence
    • ChihiraAico, humanoid care companion
    • Christensen, Clay
    • coal-mining, decline of in the UK
    • Colvin, Geoff, Humans are Underrated
    • consensus, toward
    • Craigslist, launch of
    • Daimler and self-driving cars
    • DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency)
    • deaths on the road, US
    • demographics as factor in roboticization of elder care
    • Detroit, Michigan
      • municipal bankruptcy
      • and structural unemployment
    • digital revolution, economic impact of
    • eBay selling as new job
    • Economist, The
    • education
      • root purpose of
    • education an...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Series page
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright page
  6. Dedication
  7. Epigraph
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: Time to Stop Being Naive
  11. One: Non-Human Resources
  12. Two: “The Stupid Luddite People”
  13. Three: Welcome to the Rust Belt
  14. Four: Building Consensus and Getting Prepared
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index
  17. End User License Agreement