Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Employment

Running head: APPLIED ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY
Applied Ethics and Sustainability:
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author Note:

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Research Topic: Artificial Intelligence
Ethical Question: What will happen if human beings do not get jobs?
Answer- a
This ethical question is relevant to the question as artificial intelligence can beat human
intelligence in terms of perfection or time management. Therefore, companies require robots
rather than human.
Answer-b
This is to be noted that the manual labour is being replaced by the automation or
mechanism. It can be said that the humans want humans to concentrate on complex works
instead of losing energy in doing physical work (Block 2016). This is to be mentioned that the
physical labour was the dominant work in the context of pre-industrial world. It can be said
intellectual labour plays dominant role in the industrial world (Van Vlasselaer et al. 2015).
Therefore humans felt the urgency to reduce their effort with the help of machines. This is also to
be noted that the workers had to danger their lives for the sake of earning bread and butter.
Therefore, it was ethical to create significant alternative ways in order to secure workers’ life.
There is no risk for a machine to work in a crisis situation. However, the rise of automated work
create an employment issue throughout the world. The companies increase the number of
machines instead of requiting employees. This is because the companies need to do one time
investment to install machines. However, they have to spend money on employees monthly. It is
important to understand to understand that a machine can work of five to six people in a short
period of time. This can be stated that the company gets the faster work in the return of less

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money. Therefore, this becomes a significant issue to highlight because human are not being
recruited and are not able to run their family.
Answer – c
Six key facts:
1. According to the report published by the company named Forrester, robots will have
reduced at least 6 % of the entire jobs in the United States by the year 2021. The
automated works will include driving vehicles, providing customer services and
calculating.
2. This is significant to mention that the robots are being facilitated with intellect. They can
interpret human emotions. This is why they can even make decisions on behalf the
humans. Therefore, it can be considered as threat. It is because they can compete with not
only physical strength of human but also with their intellect.
3. This is evident that the companies prefer robots rather than human employees. It is
because the robots play an important role for the benefits of the significant companies.
The companies find the robots useful in terms of cost cutting. These robots can offer
significant quantitative productions.
4. It is important to be noted that the machines can produce quality to a certain level.
However, it cannot match the intellect level of human beings in true sense. This is to be
remembered that the Robots are the creation of human brains. Therefore, the robots
cannot work as the replica of humans for sure.
5. According to Brian Hopkins, a troublesome situation will take place with the rise of
robots by the year 2012. AI/ cognitive technology will replace the jobs of the drivers,