Dear\nEditor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I am\nwriting to express my views on the letter \u201cAI and robots threaten to unleash\nmass unemployment\u201d, in which the writer claimed that a major part of the human\nworking force will be replaced by automatons and machines in the years to come.\nHowever, I disagree with the writer\u2019s statement. In the following, I will\nexplain why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To\nbegin with, there is no certain answer that AI and robots would eliminate the human\nworking force, but real examples do show that they offer great assistance to us instead\nof expelling us from our businesses. \nLet\u2019s give several examples to start with. The most common robots would\nbe ATMs. In the 1990s, the US banks started installing ATMs. It caused some human tellers to leave their\nworkplace. This is true. The\nbanks at the time had 13 employees on average, down from 20. However, this also encouraged\nthe parent banks to open new branches and that the total employment of\nthe tellers actually went up. This not\nonly applies to the banking field, similar stories could be found in fields\nlike health care, law and education. It is certainly hard to anticipate\nwhat will possibly happen to the future of the human working force. It\nis understandable that humans would imagine being replaced seeing that technology\nkeeps\nadvancing and showing the ability to do tasks humans could do, or even better. However,\nif we see them as our assistants and our fellow workers but not our\ncompetitors, we can seize the opportunity to expand our business but not being\nreplaced. Besides, robots could excel in tasks humans do though, one should not ignore that robots\nare not humans; they cannot replicate all human qualities, interpreting all\nsubtle interactions among fellow humans, which are essential in all work fields.\nThis is why AI and robots could not threaten mass unemployment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Which\nbrings us to my next point, robots are not humans. The most obvious difference\nbetween men and robots are the emotional aspect. There have been debates on\nwhether AI and robots could replace doctors. \nSome may state that since robots could give a much higher\nefficiency and accuracy on diagnosing diseases and sickness, and human\ndoctors could be eliminated on the working field. However,\nI must disagree on this statement. Yes,\nrobots certainly could give a much higher accuracy on diagnosis; however, it\ncould not give a more human feeling to the patients, which is what makes the patients\nfeel more at ease in a hospital. Although\nsome with enough knowledge on the IT field may argue that in the AI research\narea today, emotional intelligence has been tested, and could already recognize\nemotions on faces much better than humans. However,\ndelivering diagnosis and discussing adequate therapy with patients is not about\nacknowledging the emotions the patient has, it is more about the sensitivity on\nyour patients, and no matter how skilled your medical robot is, they could not\nacquire the skill of having enough\nsensitivity on your patient to make them comfortable discuss their treatment\nwith you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With\nthe above reasons, it leaves a question, why not let the robots do what they are\ngood at and humans do what we are good at? Take doctors as an example. Robots and AI\u2019s\nexcel in high efficiency and accuracy, so why not let AI take over the research\ndepartment, and assist the doctors to give out an accurate diagnosis, perhaps\neven the appropriate therapy. Or even the doctors could validate the AI proposal\nand deliver the final message to the patients. AI is not the one who would most\ncertain to destroy our jobs. They are the one which could assist us and\nallow human\u2019s to perform better with a higher efficiency. In 2017, Walmart announced they were\nbeginning to test shelf scanning robots at 50 locations. These robots are not\nto replace human workers but to make them more efficient. The robots free\nemployees from tasks like walking aisles looking for out of stock products and\nallow them to focus their time on filling the shelves, replacing wrongly placed\nitems and fixing problems robots notify them of. This increases efficiency but\nnot removes the human working force. Thus it proves mass unemployment would not\nappear soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore,\nI do not agree with the writer\u2019s opinion, and I believe in the future, humans\nand AI would be able to work together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yours faithfully<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chris Wong<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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