Excuse Me AI Where Have all the Jobs Gone

The rapid diffusion of Artificial Intelligence demands that the public have insightful discussions on the ethical dilemmas that pose, in potential bias, discrimination and other civil dangers, that looms on a global scale to job and worker displacements. Like the Industrial Revolution, AI is disrupting the work landscape for traditional blue collar and white-collar jobs. AI not only presents a risk to workers in the fields and offices, but it also marginalizes workers from getting into other job spaces through biased resume shifting algorithms, written tests and demand for transformational science, technology, engineering, and math skills for impacted works.

AI demands power and rare earth materials. Will it create jobs not on earth but drive workers demand in the space mining sector as the Industrial Revolution did, pulling laborers from farms to city factories (History.com Editors, 2009)? Will AI’s demand for key rare earth building blocks in its components that power self-driving vehicles, super computers, robotics, and other advanced technologies result in AI manipulated job placements?

The unchecked growth of AI will work to fulfill its own circular demand for greater amounts of rare earth metal. These metals are rare and heavily pursued in hard-to-reach places. As such, work roles for these elements may result in manipulation of the job pool to direct labor to sea and space-mining (Gilbert, 2021) listings. Hazardous environments may bear the brunt of humanity’s employment demands in the future, especially where robotics may not be able to finesse these tasks. The European Union’s ethical guidance for AI’s development will be insufficient unless it ensures the laws for human-centric developed AI is adopted on a global scale.

References

Editors, History. com. (2009, October 29). Industrial revolution: Definition,

inventions & dates ‑ history. https://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/industrial-revolution

Gilbert, A. (2021, April 26). Mining in space is coming. Milken Institute Review.