The future is today, and it could take away 5 million jobs by 2020, according to estimates by the World Economic Forum in Davos. The process of automating companies proceeds at a rapid pace, even involving the replacement of white-collar workers. As in the case of Amelia, the artificial intelligence produced by the Americans of Ipsoft.
Amelia is a virtual assistant who speaks all the languages of the world, never gets sick, works 24 hours a day and, above all, receives no salary. Over the next few years, she could replace hundreds of thousands of secretaries around the world.
But this is not an isolated case. To tell this evolution of our system is a report broadcast tonight on Raitre, in "Presa Direct", and entitled "The planet of robots“, which describes a change perhaps still perceived as distant, but in reality tremendously underway.
- android of today, and even more those of tomorrow, could be not only workers or secretaries, but also doctors, switchboard operators, salesmen, cooks and craftsmen. Like the supercomputer Watson, expert in diagnostics, or like Ross, the computer lawyer born in San Francisco. Or waiters as in the case of Eatsa, the fully automated restaurant, also in San Francisco.
A fantastic and worrying innovation, which could put at risk, as the digitalisation of banks clearly demonstrates, one in three jobs, as stated by the Bank Of England. An evolution, therefore, that will require a radical change to maintain the sustainability of the production system and not create a world of unemployed and incompetent. One of the solutions that is making its way, albeit discontinuously, seems to be that of the basic income.
