At least, that’s what they thought they were hearing.
Castor was only two years into his job as a supervisor at GE Transportation’s engine remanufacturing plant in Grove City, Pennsylvania, when in 2016 he had to tell assembly-line operators with decades of experience that the way they did their jobs was about to change dramatically.
What you’ve heard is true: The robots are coming to take our jobs, writes technologist and entrepreneur Aidan Cunniffe. But instead of fearing our machine counterparts, should we be thanking them? In the future, artificial intelligence and automation technology will begin to take over in a big way, transforming the entire way we do business. In fact, that future is closer.
GE Reports Perspectives welcomes experts to analyze the impact of technology on the future of work. Here, Martin Ford, author of the New York Times bestseller, Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future, shares his predictions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on jobs and the economy.
- Will advances in AI make society better off or worse off?