Jane Merrick's Could A Robot Do My Job?

Aren’t robots just the coolest? Growing up in one of the tiny villages of Belize in the early 2000’s I hardly saw any of the amazing technological advances the world had to offer beside cars and household appliances. At age seven a crane was the coolest machine I had ever seen. Turning eight I saw a plane for the first time, you can imagine how excited was that I actually got the opportunity to fly in one. Upon arriving to America I saw the major role of technology the daily American lifestyle, but I was unaware that people didn’t see it all as good. “The pace of progress in artificial intelligence (AI) is so fast that it has triggered alarm, leading to a Panorama investigation this week, entitled ‘Could a Robot do my Job?’” Jane Merrick (2015) mentioned in an Independent Newspaper. Although automation seems like a threat they are plenty of positive aspects to it such as the reliability, productivity and job increases. The concept of automation have been tossed around quite a bit lately and wrongfully miss judged at that. Automation is “the state of being operated automatically” according to the …show more content…
Augmentation is necessary because automation is inevitable, and younger people are hopping on the augmentation train leaving adults behind. “First, we need to improve the skills of adults who are being left behind by this revolution. The Government and industry focus is on young people through apprenticeships, which is right, but we also need investment in reskilling the over-45s who are out of work.” Declared author Jane Merrick (2015). Because younger people are already being introduced to the concept of automation they’ll have a better idea of how deal with it than those who are already in the work field. Americans need to see that machines are only here to assist us and they are very good at what they do therefore we need to be just as good or even