Will Artificial Intelligence and Robots make our Jobs Obsolete?

AI (artificial intelligence) and robots threaten our living standards. With the ever-increasing ability of robots and AI to perform more intricate tasks with greater accuracy, speed and consistency than humans, it is progressively becoming obvious that many jobs, if done by robots, would be more cost-effective for companies, and may even do the job better. Not only do robots and AI hold the potential to take over many repetitive manufacturing jobs, they also look likely to take over commercial jobs, such as shopping assistants, as well as higher skilled jobs: from secretaries and administrators to surgeons, with some arguing that robots with AI may be able to write their own code as part of self-improvement in the search for performing ever more complex tasks even more productively and effectively – even removing the need for computer programmers! This presents an interesting and potentially frightening predicament: a society where business owners reap the vast benefits of having substituted workers for much more productive robots, while many millions of workers are out of their jobs. There could be millions of redundant workers suddenly forced to find alternative employment, but with robots taking many jobs, the majority will struggle to retrain to find jobs well-suited to their qualifications and experience that are not being done by robots (hence their redundancy).