WEEK 08 Question Response

This post is responding to @atamme question, "The concept of Universal Basic Income exists because of the possibility of humans losing their jobs due to artificial intelligence. What are some ways to combat the loss of jobs due to AI?"

Artificial intelligence isn't necessarily made to replace workers. In my management class, we learned that AI is mostly put into place to help make things more efficient in the workplace because there aren't enough workers to get things done efficiently. AI enhances the company. However, I do see how using AI instead of hiring more people to work is replacing those who could've filled in. Some ways to combat loss of jobs due to AI would be too potentially make roles for people to work the AI and train them on how to use them. That way, workers wouldn't necessarily be gone. I don't think that having artificial intelligence is a bad thing though. Like I mentioned before, it helps enhance an organization. For instance, when an employer is trying to decide who to hire for a company, instead of going through hundreds of applications themselves, they can use AI to sort through some of them! Another benefit of AI would be that, there wouldn't be room for human error necessarily. As humans, we can accidentally make mistakes in something, but if we have AI that is programmed to do the task, then the AI wouldn't make an accident.

I do think that in the future, if we aren't careful, that AI could mostly replace workers in some industries. Industries that are mostly online and have some workers from home might totally become strictly AI. Medical professions on the other hand, will never be fully replaced with AI. There has to be humans to do the operations since it requires complex thought, but they could use forms of AI to enhance the surgical processes. An example of this would be how AI can detect cancers that couldn't be detected otherwise.