3. Impact of Losing Jobs
● Industrial revolution
● Youngstown, Ohio population of 170,000 in 1930
● 50,000 jobs and $1.3 billion
● Regional depression, spousal abuse, and suicide tripled within a decade
● The city built four prisons in the mid- 1990s
4. Technology Adding or Creating Jobs
● 19th Century
● Weave a yard of cloth was automated and increased by factor of 50
● Labor required per yard of cloth went down 98%
● Cloths became cheaper and demand went up
● The number of weaving jobs actually increased
5. Technology Adding or Creating Jobs
● Automated Teller Machine (ATM) on bank tellers
● ATM took over some of the routine tasks from tellers
● By 2004 number tellers fell down from 20 to 13 per branch
● Reduce the cost of running a branch
● Customers demand went up
● Urban bank branches went up 43%
6. Technology Adding or Creating Jobs
● Introduction of automobile
● Decline in horses related jobs
● New industry resulting in new jobs
● Automobile Workers, Mechanics, Auto Dealers
● Cab drivers, Truck drivers
● Hotels, Fast food restaurants
7. Technology Adding or Creating Jobs
● Software capable analysis
● Reduce the cost of search especially in legal documents
● Legal clerk had to search manually
● Needed more time and manpower
● Legal clerk demand went up by 1.1% instead of decreasing due to
displacement effect
8. Is This Time Different
Disruption of society is happening
10 times faster
300 times the scale
3000 times the impact
Remember Youngstown, Ohio
Is this time different?
13. Factory Worker
• Apple & Samsung
supplier Faxconn
replaced 60,000
employee with robots.
• Each robot per 1000
workers afect the
employment ratio and
wages.
14. Telephone Salesperson
• Sales calls are already
made by automated
voicebot.
• Look at Siri and Alexa
how much they have
improved.
• It is just matter of time
when all telemarketing
will go to robots.
17. Surgeon
• Surgical robot have
already taken over the
operating theater.
• They have performed
million procedure since
2000.
• Robots will certainly
take over all type
surgery independently.
18. Food Delivery Driver
• Food delivery company
“Just Eat” will start
delivering food in
London.
• This cart is fitted with gps
and cameras, so if
someone try to steal it or
damage it a signal will be
sent to the control and a
photo of the thief will be
taken. Device will be
tracked remotely.
19. Construction Worker
• Mega size 3D printer is
able to construct building
with minimal human labor.
• Chinese real estate
company Huashang
Tengda built a two story
building in 45 days using
this 3D printer.
• Workers simply had to
instal frame, wiring and
plumbing and printer took
care of the rest.
20. Mixologist
• The star attraction of
The Royal Caribbean
the Bionic Bar.
• This mixologist can
make any of 300
cocktails to the
perfection.
21. Barman
• Meet Carl, the robot
bartender. He works at
the Robots Bar and
Lounge in Ilmenau, east
Germany.
• Carl not only can serve
drinks, he can also
engage in small talks
with the customers.
22. Hospital Administrator
• MIT CS and AI
laboratory have
already trailed a robot
that can organize
nurse’s schedule and
source beds for
patience.
23. Retail Sales Associate
• Nestle uses Pepper
robots to sell Dolce
Gusto coffee pods and
machines in department
store in Japan.
• Pepper also answer
customer’s questions.
• This robot has been
rolled out to 1000 store
country wide.
24. Receptionist
• They may not provide a
warm welcome as humans,
but robots are checking in
guests at Henn-na Hotel in
Nagasaki, Japan.
• Multilingual robot greet
customers at the flagship
branch of the Bank of Tokyo-
Mitsubishi in downtown
Tokyo.
25. Tour guide Japan National Museum
• A robot Kodomoroid lets
visitors know the new
stories relevant to
exhibits.
• Science communicator
bot Otonaroid chat with
visitors and answers
their science related
questions.
26. Security Guard
• Knightscope’s K5 robot
constantly monitoring its
surrounding.
• Can detect potentially criminal
“audio events” such as glass
breaking or people
screaming.
• An impressive 24 of the
robots patrol shopping malls
and offices in Silicon Valley,
California.
27. Journalist
• A US company Narrative
Science created a software
called Quill which can write
intelligible reports and
articles if we enter raw
data.
• Forbes has already
adopted this technology for
its years earning report,
and Associated Press for
financial and sports reports.
28. Shepherd
• The Australian Center
for Field Robotic build
this robot which can
tend to cattle, sheeps
and every other
animal.
• It is able to corral the
animal and analyze
their health with
sensors.
29. Chef
• A start-up called Moley
Robotics invented a
100% automated robot
chef.
• Can learn new recipes
and techniques, cook
gourmet meal.
• Clean up after itself.
• It can follow any recipe
to the letter.
30. Accountant
• Humanoid robot accountants
might be little distance future.
• Some companies has
already fully automated their
accounts and therefore they
do not need full time
accountants.
31. Farmer
• World’s first robot farm is
launching soon in Japan.
• An indoor farm factory
which is producing
thousands of lettuces a day
with minimum cost and
human input require.
• Robots will water, feed,
harvest, and transplant the
corps.
32. Librarian
• Researchers and Singapore
developed a robotic
librarian.
• Can laser scan the
bookshelves and identify
missing or misplaced
books.
• Organize the shelves.
33. Guess which one is the teacher?
• An educational robot will
be UK’s first automated
teacher.
• This was introduced in
September 2016 in UK.
• It has microphone, HD
cameras, and 3D sensors
to interact with student
and detect their emotions.
• Japan already using this
technology to teach.
34. Losing Jobs
● Google and Webmd already answering questions which were reserved for
professionals whom we have to pay
● Airbnb threatening hotels jobs within one decade
● Computer can draw and compose music
● In 1900, 41 percent of Americans worked in agriculture; by 2000, it was only 2
percent
35. Does Technology Adds Jobs Fast Enough
● Nine out of 10 workers today are in occupations that existed
100 years ago.
● Only 5 percent of the jobs generated between 1993 and 2013 came
from “high tech” sectors like computing, software, and
telecommunications.
36. Does Technology Adds Jobs Fast Enough
● In 1964, AT&T, was worth $267 billion in today’s dollars
and employed 758,611 people.
● Today’s telecommunications giant, Google, is worth $370 billion
but has only about 55,000 employees.
● less than a tenth of the size of AT&T’s workforce in its heyday.
37.
38. Solutions to Save Our Jobs & Human Race
● Merging with machines
○ Create devices that can be implanted in the human brain to improve
memory
○ This will allow for more direct interfacing with computing devices
○ Such technology can accomplish the direct uploading or
downloading of thoughts and knowledge to and from the brain.
39. Solutions to Save Our Jobs & Human Race
● Artificial intelligence, use it to our advantages
○ Collect and Analyze information about the learner’s interaction with the
course
○ Personalized the course to meet the learning curve
○ Using AI algorithm to break down the complex task for new workers to
perform which required years of experience
● Using AR glasses or headsets, engineers, healthcare workers, industry workers,
and professionals in many other fields will be able to see real-time information
and instructions about the task they’re performing while keeping their hands free
to do the job
40. Solutions to Save Our Jobs & Human Race
● Do not confuse productivity with growth in jobs.
● Is the unemployment number accurate?
● Economic theory and government policy will have to be
rethought
● Universal income.
● 15 to 20 hour work week
41. Listen to Your Conscious
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy said, “If men have
the talent to invent new machines that put men out of
work, they have the talent to put those men back to
work.”
42. Listen to Your Conscious
● Whether you choose to believe in ethiopian world
● Problem is not robots
● Before a robot comes in and take a job away from anyone
of us or from our loved ones
● “Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself”
Franklin D. Roosevelt