Will Robots Take Our Jobs? - BBC Click

Will robots replace human workers? We meet the people whose livelihoods might be under threat and those who are doing something about it.

Twitter: @bbcclick

[WarBoy]

Yes yes but who will buy all those products in the shipping containers when nobody has a job left?

[shinlanten]

*_"There's a human controlling the crane"_*

That won't be for long

[KSweeney]

Have you watched ‘Humans Need not Apply’? They will be No jobs in the future, no job is safe!

[beldiman]

One thing is for sure: Good Chefs, prostitutes and drug dealers will never be replaced by robots.
Ohh, and of course politicians, they will never accept being replaced by robots or vegetables for that matter

[MarkNieuwenhuizen]

When I had a stroke, was rushed to the hospital and scanned, the scan was researched bij a robotic algoritmn. There was no need to wait for a surgeon to be available in the middle of the night.

[satyricon]

I laugh when anyone talks about the dignity of work as a criticism of UBI—as if people don't know this already. If there is no work, then the criticism i, e the dignity of work is moot and meaningless. Sure, other jobs will arise over time; the problem is handling the short run transition. Shall the forty year old truck driver go homeless until the market figures out how he's needed? Seems a bit callous.

[tonyvvvv]

People need to work! We all cant be engineers!

[ltmcolen]

If a rotating machine was enough to drive the Industrial Revolution, imagine what a self thinking machine could achieve. And your imagination isn't the limiting factor in technologic evolution. A decade ago nobody could imagine the things we have right now. You don't see people on the street lighting the light poles anymore, even thought we could give these jobs to low skilled workers. It would be plain dumb

[spectermakoto]

Guys the new and better jobs are infantryman who launch campaigns agaist the robots to survive gotta practice that marksmanship

[shinlanten]

*_"Whether it's worth automating"_*

The bottom line of corporations will ultimately decide that.

[brandancrocker]

This is frightening and I hope we do something about it before it's too late and we lose our jobs

[weeverob]

the architect at the end says with AI homes will be built more quickly and cheaply ....a great development, if only the job-displaced population had a job to pay for one.

[Galbex]

Poor us, poor humans. I hope robots don't leave us without a way to eat and have at least good health-care.

[thebattler]

7:10 I agree with his point that "lifelong learning" or retraining in order to gain IT/computer science skills is not for everyone. There will be a large surplus of human labor. I also agree with his point that the government won't be able to collect income tax from those who become jobless as a result of automation.

[clydepersaud]

I believe people and robots can work together. We can have people work during the day while robots work during the night shift. If people can't work who will buy the products

[dvklaveren]

The problem with arguments that technology can help make humans more efficient; a human with a digging machine can replace a hundred humans with shovels. Technology is a force multiplier; you are still making humans obsolete, it's just not 'all of the humans'. Yet.

[karolbagh]

Rationing of state resources has to be placed, no one should be left behind to strengthen social structure because we are entering an era of irreversible automation, AI, abundance and huge scarcity of Jobs.

[stephenwilliamson]

Yes. Yes they will. I, for one, welcome our benevolent robot masters.

[rickyravani]

Developing countries will be the worst affected by AI.

[diogomonteiro]

This awkwardly leads to the question: Why should we have billions of people if we only need millions to program ? AI in the military already has that covered and its only capitalist logic to discard people once they don't present a profit opportunity. Imagine a system, which more insidious than slavery itself, where humans aren't even needed anymore. And I don't see private MNC's giving their stolen wealth to pay for a basic income when they no longer can justify their existence.