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From self-driving cars to carebots (care+robots)
for elderly people, rapid development in technology has long represented a possible
threat (威胁) to many jobs normally
performed by people. But experts now believe that almost 50 per cent of occupations
existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence
(AI) continues to change businesses.
"The next fifteen years will see a revolution
in how we work, and a revolution will necessarily take place in how we plan and
think about workplaces," said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy
for CBRE Asia-Pacific. A growing number of jobs in the future will require creative
intelligence, social skills and the ability to use artificial intelligence.
The report is based on interviews with 200 experts,
business leaders and young people from Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America. It
shows that in the US technology already destroys more jobs than it creates. But
the report states, "Losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs—just
changing what people do." Growth in new jobs could occur as much, according
to the research. "The growth of companies that have the speed and technological
know-how will directly challenge big companies," it states.
A 2014 report by Pew Research Centre found 52
per cent of experts in artificial intelligence and robotics were optimistic about
the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few years.
The optimists pictured "a future in which robots do not take the place of more
jobs than they create," according to Aaron Smith, the report's co-author.
"Technology will continue to affect jobs,
but more jobs seem likely to be created. Although there have always been unemployed
people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There
is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change," Microsoft's
Jonathan Grudin told researchers.
