Automation In Ethiopia

Is rapid automation challenging people’s employability?

Since the dawn of civilization, man has laboured with the belief that work pays. However, every now and then, small set of people challenge the notion of labour. With all technological progress, it’s been thought that machine works, and man thinks. With the advent of Artificial Intelligence, machines have far more computing capabilities than man. While reducing labour or optimizing work is the goal of all progress, unfortunately it may be counter intuitive to the fact that labour pays.
Minimizing effort sure is a noble intent and automation is in the middle of all of that. Whatever we want to automate, we automate. A simple lever and pulley is also automation. Where it required ten men

With the exception of a few exceptionally creative critical thinking activities. Robots can produce music, drive vehicles, they can make faster decisions, make strategies, file your taxes and manage your money and so on and so forth. Today, we have almost out-invented ourselves. Which means, there is very little that artificial intelligences cannot do, that we do. As a matter of fact, they are more accurate in doing what we do many times erroneously.
Now that brings us back to the very fundamental dilemma of all civilization and progress. Are we going after the right intent?
There are countries in the world where a large population of the people still have only one meal. For them, employability may mean working as lumberjacks, harvesting in the fields, but with rapid automation you’re just going to tell them that they’re not really needed in the fields anymore. It’s bad enough that they can’t even have one meal. Now you’re going to tell them that one meal is also not necessary. That’s where it is headed. Of course it’s a dilemmatic question and there’s no specific answer to this. But the fact of the matter is, human life is an ingenious machine by

we’re confident that between 2 and 3 million Americans who drive vehicles for a living will lose their jobs in the next fifteen years. Self-driving cars are the most obvious job-destroying technology, but there are similar innovations ahead that will dislocate cashiers, fast food workers, customer service representatives, groundskeepers and many many others in a few short years. How many of these people will be readily employable elsewhere?
Okay, you’re thinking. But isn’t this all still in the somewhat distant future, since unemployment is only 4.6% according to the headlines? Actually, automation has already eliminated about 4 million manufacturing jobs in the U.S. since 2000. And instead of finding new jobs, a lot of those people left the workforce and didn’t come