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| comment | | "parent_author":"",<br>"parent_permlink":"technology",<br>"author":"kiddady",<br>"permlink":"are-we-experiencing-a-robot-takeover",<br>"title":"Are We Experiencing A Robot TakeOver???",<br>"body":"<center>![AI-robots-scary-omg.jpeg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmXKzy5zxMWVVR5QvFmAvWtHkGYsbbwPmSej2xekWN9kuS\/AI-robots-scary-omg.jpeg)<\/center>\n\nWittenberg is the German city where Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the church door 500 years ago and launched the Protestant Reformation. \n\nTo mark the anniversary,<br> the local Protestant authorities have installed a robot called BlessU-20 to deliver blessings in five languages.\n\n#### <center>The BlessU-20 robot that was installed in Germany.<\/center>\n<center>![253643_54_news_hub_207399_656x500.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmSfnJbghmMRyyUFtXjA6SmQ4rL1sLE2x2MP3hWScimoZE\/253643_54_news_hub_207399_656x500.jpg)<\/center>\n\nThe robot priest has a touchscreen chest,<br> two arms and a head. After one has chosen their language the robot raises its arms,<br> recites a verse from the bible,<br> and says \u201cGod bless and protect you.\u201d It also beams light from its hands .\nJust what we needed,<br> and it comes with thye full support of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau.\n\n>They want people to consider if it is possible to be blessed by a machine,<br> or if a human being is needed. The idea is to provoke debate. When pressed,<br> they say that they are not planning to replace human pastors with machines. They literally don\u2019t want to robotize the church work,<br> but see if they can bring a theological perspectivce to a machine.\nMost people are seeing and regarding this as another,<br> rather comical example of robots taking over what used to be human jobs.\n\nThere has literally been much talk recently about the \u201crobot revolution\u201d everywhere. Automation has already killed millions of jobs,<br> people are warned because this cannot be stopped. \n\nTo former assembly line workers and bank tellers whose jobs were automated out of existence two decades ago,<br> that has the ring of truth.\n\nLiterally ten years from now,<br> it will probably also ring true to millions of former taxi,<br> bus- and long-distance track-drivers.\n\nAnd automation may also be bringing us to a political revolution. Many people suspect that shocking political events like Brexit,<br> the election of Donald Trump,<br> and a 30% vote for the ultra-nationalist Marine Le Pen in France\u2019s recent presidential election are linked to the growing numbers of angry,<br> jobless people in the Western industrialized countries.\n\n<center>![french-presidential-elections-the-launch-of-the-marine-le-pen-campaign-633999982-58aa0cb8ed61a.jpg (https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmNzHBXyxLWZCJWnwsTBXNteR2JYHLNk5KvoAsmPwFVbPq\/french-presidential-elections-the-launch-of-the-marine-le-pen-campaign-633999982-58aa0cb8ed61a.jpg)<\/center>\n\n But wait a minute. What growing number of jobless people are they talking about? The official unemployment rate in the United States is now down to 4.5%. That statistic however only counts those who are actively looking for work. It does not count those who have given up looking for work.\n\nIf one includes all those who are not working and not just the job-seekers,<br> then 17.5% of American men of prime working age (24 -55)are,<br> to use the old word \u201cunemployed.\u201d\n\nThelast time United States unemployment was at that level was in 1936,<br> in the middle of the Great Drepression.\nMoreover,<br> this hidden reef of unemployed people is biggest in the former industrial heartland of the United States,<br> now known as the Rust Belt,<br> where a critical number of ex-Democratic voters were so angry that they switched to Trump and put him into the White House.\n\nThis new reality is particularly hidden by the fact that so many of these unemployed people have managed to wangle their way into disability benefits: one American worker in 16 is now certified as disabled,<br> whereas in 1960 (when health and safety standards were far lower) only one worker in 134 was. But back then the official statistics on unemployment were pretty close to the truth. Exactly the same applies to the United Kingdom,<br> where unemployment is officially only 4.8%,<br> though almost one-third of the people on incapacity benefits in Britain would actually be working in a full-employment economy,<br> and that the true jobless rate in some northern post-industrial areas reaches 17%.\n\nThe \u201cangry men\u201d (and angry women) who make up this hidden reef are the key group who voted for Trump (and Brexit,<br> and the National Front). The Americans among them have been told by Trump that their jobs were stolen by foreigners,<br> but both in the United States and elsewhere they wereactually mostly taken by ***automation.*** Not all jobs will go,<br> of course,<br> but a prediction of over 38% of jobs will be lost to automation in the United States in the next 15 years.\n\n<center><\/center>\n\nThe risk is not just mass unemployment,<br> but the political radicalization that comes with it. No one will literally stop automation,<br> so everyone will have to work hand in hand in the redistribution of the remaining work. \n\nPeople also have to find ways of putting real money into the pockets of those who have no work,<br> or else the whole capitalist business model will collapse.(Not enough customers). \n\nAnd people have to find ways of subsidizing people without treating them like \u201closers,<br>\u201d because that\u2019s what really drove the anger that put Trump into office. Otherwise the populist demagogues who get elected in 20 years\u2019 time may make people look back fondly on the Trump years. Though people should cheer up,<br> there wont be any robot priests.",<br>"json_metadata":" \"tags\":[\"technology\",<br>\"kr\",<br>\"africa\",<br>\"steemit\",<br>\"dlive\" ,<br>\"image\":[\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmXKzy5zxMWVVR5QvFmAvWtHkGYsbbwPmSej2xekWN9kuS\/AI-robots-scary-omg.jpeg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmSfnJbghmMRyyUFtXjA6SmQ4rL1sLE2x2MP3hWScimoZE\/253643_54_news_hub_207399_656x500.jpg\",<br>\"https:\/\/steemitimages.com\/DQmNzHBXyxLWZCJWnwsTBXNteR2JYHLNk5KvoAsmPwFVbPq\/french-presidential-elections-the-launch-of-the-marine-le-pen-campaign-633999982-58aa0cb8ed61a.jpg\" ,<br>\"app\":\"steemit\/0.1\",<br>\"format\":\"markdown\" " |
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