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| About men and robots |
If
we read Erik ' and Andrew McAfee in their "race Against the Machine,"
the conclusion, however, seems clear: this time is different, because
the capacity of the machines will reach the point of substituting
advantageously more and more of the tasks that people can do, which
implies that, in one way or another, end up eliminating more posts than
they are able to create.
Robots already drive trucks and replace
truckers over the next ten years, autonomous drones already fly legally
in Israel and transfer laboratory samples between hospitals in
Switzerland, customer service employees are progressively replaced by
chatbots more and more realistic, and pizzas and burgers will soon be
ordered , made and shipped through robots.
But as we explore the progress of automation, and finding that some jobs, or even countries, they have worse prospects in the career of substitution than others, other evidence seems to be emerging: the first, that before the complete substitution, everything indicates that we will pass through a phase in which increasingly prepared and sophisticated workers will learn to work more and more with robots. How can we prepare for a future in which machine learning and artificial intelligence are going to progressively incorporate more and more jobs?
Everything
indicates that Donald Trump's ideas, to preserve at all costs a few
jobs in the extraction of coal in exchange for the health of the whole
planet, are deeply absurd and wrong. Instead, what seems to be imposed
is the idea that certain jobs are much better being replaced, and that
countries will do much better by following a model in which they focus
on investments in infrastructure that allow to incorporate technologies
such as the Internet of things, machine learning and artificial
intelligence to improve workers ' performance and maintain
competitiveness. Technology eliminates certain jobs, but only technology
is able to save the jobs of the future. A model that seems to
internalize much more of a country like China, already clearly destined
for world leadership, than a United States that at all lights walk
backwards.
Are
robots going to take the job? Yes, in a large number of cases. But
trying to avoid it would only generate absurd anachronistic situations,
as it would have done to insist on keeping the carriage drivers at all
costs. Actually, what the robots are going to do is make room for jobs
that really make sense, for tasks that a machine does not do as well,
for the redefinition of things that a man can do better thanks to the
collaboration with machines. No one can stop the automation, because
trying to do it only increases the incentive for someone, in another
country or in another company, to take advantage of it to be much more
competitive, to manufacture better, with more quality, cheaper, or all
at the same time. No, the workers won't be saved by a determined
imbecile.