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The risk is that robotics and automation will displace workers in blue-collar manufacturing jobs before the dust of the Third Industrial Revolution settles.
The third question concerns the employment effects of further automation.
Unsurprisingly, given the wider use of automation and artificial intelligence, we expect a 55% jump in demand for all types of technological skills, from basic digital knowledge to advanced skills like programming.
This highlights the potential for automation and AI to displace even white-collar office workers, for example, in accounting, finance, and legal services.
For companies, these skills shifts are part of the larger challenge posed by automation, which is disrupting business models and upending how work is organized within firms.
But much more needs to be done to ensure that companies and workers thrive in this new era of automation and AI.
These so-called “smart factories” will drive manufacturing forward, and if emerging markets are to compete in this new production landscape, those driving policy will need to raise the levels of automation, competitiveness, and connectedness in their economies.
Initially, Li seemed subdued in his ponderous responses to questions from an audience of global luminaries that focused on weighty issues such as trade frictions, globalization, digitization, and automation.
Economic inequality – reinforced by job losses from automation, deeply entrenched social orders, and damaging political power dynamics – has contributed substantially to this sense of powerlessness.
For example, job automation will ultimately propel more people toward higher-paying, more productive employment that is better suited to the new era of “talentism," when human imagination and innovation, not capital or natural resources, drive economic growth.
The economic challenges facing developed-country middle classes are largely the result of two factors: the rapid loss of white- and blue-collar routine jobs to automation, and the shift of middle and lower value-added jobs to countries with lower labor costs.
Across all countries, low-skilled occupations that require less formal education will be the most susceptible to automation, whereas jobs requiring professional training and/or tertiary education will be less threatened, at least for now.
Policymakers should follow the lead of those who are already strengthening education and adult-learning programs so that no workers are left behind by the driving force of automation.
Even hitherto secure, low-skilled service occupations may not escape automation.
These economies already face the threat that automation will foreclose job creation in export-oriented factories.
Recently, automation in manufacturing has expanded even to areas where labor has been relatively cheap.
(Though perhaps this is not automation proper – the supermarket has just shifted some of the work of shopping onto the customer.)
For those who dread the threat that automation poses to low-skilled labor, a ready answer is to train people for better jobs.
It is not true that automation has caused the rise of unemployment since 2008.
The optimist may reply that the pessimist’s imagination is too weak to envisage the full range of wonderful new job possibilities that automation is opening up.
But perhaps the optimist’s imagination is too weak to imagine a different trajectory – toward a world in which people enjoy the fruits of automation as leisure rather than as additional income.
Why not take advantage of automation to reduce the average working week from 40 hours to 30, and then to 20, and then to ten, with each diminishing block of labor time counting as a full time job?
This would be possible if the gains from automation were not mostly seized by the rich and powerful, but were distributed fairly instead.
Rather than try to repel the advance of the machine, which is all that the Luddites could imagine, we should prepare for a future of more leisure, which automation makes possible.
In conjunction with the secure, remote automation of financial and machine processes, however, it can have potentially far-reaching implications.
In fact, the World Economic Forum estimates that five million jobs across 15 developed countries will be lost to automation by 2020.
At the same time, the twin threats of automation and outsourcing have made employment more precarious, and sapped workers’ bargaining power.
Finally, America should start to develop a means-tested income supplement for workers whose jobs are displaced, or whose wages are undercut, by automation.
Powerful structural economic factors in recent decades – including automation, trade, and financial crisis – have left many people feeling neglected or ill-treated by those, on the right and the left, who have had control over economic policy.
And better training should be made accessible both for young people and for anyone who needs to shift to another industry as a result of automation and trade.
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