What according to you is a better approach towards this ethical concern? Justify your answer.

Question

As Artificially Intelligent machines become more and more powerful, their ability to accomplish tedious tasks is becoming better. Hence, it is now that AI machines have started replacing humans in factories. While people see it in a negative way and say AI has the power to bring mass unemployment and one day, machines would enslave humans, on the other hand, other people say that machines are meant to ease our lives. If machines over take monotonous and tedious tasks, humans should upgrade their skills to remain their masters always.

What according to you is a better approach towards this ethical concern? Justify your answer.

Answer 1

• AI taking over laborious jobs won’t create unemployment. It is just a groundless fear. The standard view of technical change is that some jobs are displaced by the substitution of machines for labour, but that the fear of total displacement is misplaced because new jobs are created, largely due to the technology-fuelled increase in productivity. Humans have always shifted away from work suitable for machines and to other jobs.
• The basic fact is that technology eliminates jobs, not work. If this level of AI revolution will happen, lots of job opportunities will be created. 
• For example: 20-30 years ago, being an accountant was a lucrative job, AI took over this job but this created a lot of opportunities, it raised the demand of a software engineer, data scientist, etc.
• It will open doors to skillful jobs rather than doing laborious tasks. 
• Thus, we will be able to cope with the level of major unemployment, if AI took over laborious jobs.