Will Robots Take Our Children’s Jobs?<br />But artificial intelligence is different, said Martin Ford, the author of “Rise of the Robots: Technology<br />and the Threat of a Jobless Future.” Machine learning does not just give us new machines to replace old machines, pushing human workers from one industry to another.<br />Consider how filmmakers used computer graphics to reanimate Carrie Fisher’s Princess Leia and Peter Cushing’s Grand Moff Tarkin as they appeared in the 1970s (never mind<br />that the Mr. Cushing died in 1994) for “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.”<br />My younger son Anton, a sweetheart, but tough as Kevlar, said he wanted to be a football player.<br />Rather, it gives us new machines to replace us, machines that can follow us to virtually any new industry we flee to.<br />Also known as Universal Basic Income, this sunny concept holds<br />that a robot-driven economy may someday produce an unlimited bounty of cool stuff while simultaneously releasing us from the drudgery of old-fashioned labor, leaving our government-funded children to enjoy bountiful lives of leisure as interpretive dancers or practitioners of bee-sting therapy, as touted by Gwyneth Paltrow.<br />The Associated Press already has used a software program from a company called Automated Insights to churn out passable copy covering Wall Street earnings<br />and some college sports, and last year awarded the bots the minor league baseball beat.
