Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines
Manufacturing Net ^ | March 15, 2016 | Katie Mohr, associate editor
Posted on 3/23/2016 7:56:10 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
A recent study by the Oxford Martin School and Citi, with OECD data from the World Bank, found that an average of 57 percent of workers around the world are at risk of being replaced by automation.
Automation is not a science fiction concept. Automation is here and spreading rapidly. But human characteristics incorporated into machinery do not stop with manual labor.
Artificial intelligence is growing in exponential terms as opposed to linear terms.
There are some who suggest the rapid development of artificial intelligence is approaching a cataclysmic event for our species, approaching the evolutionary stage of being capable of replacing human capabilities.
This is not a fantasy situation.
This is a real problem for us as individuals and for us as a species.
If we view ourselves as being nothing but a collection of biochemical molecules who’s physical and mental existence is nothing different than an advanced product of the physical, than we as a species and as individuals will find it impossible to rationalize why we as opposed to advanced forms of machines should remain in existence.
Panentheism, the concept that we as individuals are not the physical machine but rather are made in the image of the Creator of the physical universe, that we as physical entities are the physical instrument of a divine spark’s means of traveling through the physical universe, that our purpose is to circumvent the All’s paradox of eternal recurrence provides us a rational dialect capable of defending our place within the universe and thus provides us with the rational means of justifying the concept of our, human, rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness regardless as to who it is challenging those rights be they people in power, people wishing to gain power over as individuals or be they entities with extremely advanced forms of artificial intelligence.
It is time we begin thinking about the problem of AI and considering the means of circumventing the issue before the crises becomes a cataclysmic event.
Manufacturing Net ^ | March 15, 2016 | Katie Mohr, associate editor
Posted on 3/23/2016 7:56:10 PM by 2ndDivisionVet
A recent study by the Oxford Martin School and Citi, with OECD data from the World Bank, found that an average of 57 percent of workers around the world are at risk of being replaced by automation.
Automation is not a science fiction concept. Automation is here and spreading rapidly. But human characteristics incorporated into machinery do not stop with manual labor.
Artificial intelligence is growing in exponential terms as opposed to linear terms.
There are some who suggest the rapid development of artificial intelligence is approaching a cataclysmic event for our species, approaching the evolutionary stage of being capable of replacing human capabilities.
This is not a fantasy situation.
This is a real problem for us as individuals and for us as a species.
If we view ourselves as being nothing but a collection of biochemical molecules who’s physical and mental existence is nothing different than an advanced product of the physical, than we as a species and as individuals will find it impossible to rationalize why we as opposed to advanced forms of machines should remain in existence.
Panentheism, the concept that we as individuals are not the physical machine but rather are made in the image of the Creator of the physical universe, that we as physical entities are the physical instrument of a divine spark’s means of traveling through the physical universe, that our purpose is to circumvent the All’s paradox of eternal recurrence provides us a rational dialect capable of defending our place within the universe and thus provides us with the rational means of justifying the concept of our, human, rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness regardless as to who it is challenging those rights be they people in power, people wishing to gain power over as individuals or be they entities with extremely advanced forms of artificial intelligence.
It is time we begin thinking about the problem of AI and considering the means of circumventing the issue before the crises becomes a cataclysmic event.
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