The Impact Of Automation

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The world we live in today is surrounded by automated machines and we all need to understand that our world around us is changing more and more every day. It’s a scary thing to think about but we all need to know what’s going on in our work force and the impact automation is having on our work force. Automation is making more and more of an impact on the work force every day. Automation is effecting jobs especially in the automobile industry, the programming industry, and in the food industry. Automation is effecting jobs especially in the automobile industry. This industry is the most effected by automation. Instead of having 20 people building a car together, you can make a machine that can do it all accurately and efficient and in a more timely manner. The common people can’t compete with that sort of competition. This can lead to a high level of job loss in this …show more content…

I want you to think about something for a second, if the fries at McDonalds were hand cut every day and shipped in, do you know how much they would cost? Allot more than a couple bucks for a large. We have automated machines that clean and process all this food every single day and gets shipped out to restaurants all throughout the world. Automation is having an impact on our economy and how much we pay for our daily needs. I think that’s one of the biggest effects of automation. It’s literally effecting everything around us. According to ObamaWhiteHouse.Archives (3) “Accelerating AI capabilities will enable automation of some tasks that have long required human labor. These transformations will open up new opportunities for individuals, the economy, and society, but they will also disrupt the current livelihoods of millions of Americans.”, and that is all so very true. It will open new opportunities for individuals and the economy and even the society but it will have a harmful impact on the people of the US workforce in some

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