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When does a collection of hardware running some software become a "robot"? If I can replace an intern with a Python script, does that script start having to pay
by thwarted 10y ago
When does a collection of hardware running some software become a "robot"? If I can replace an intern with a Python script, does that script start having to pay social security too?
Alternatively, if the description of a job can be expressed as a python script, and still be as robust in practice, what does that say about the job itself? Or about the people who are/were doing that job? How much of the threat of automation is based on realizing that the job one is doing, not just the output, could be commoditized?
- semi-extrinsic 10y agoI am not too worried about the "threat of automation", since there are literally tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people working in the public sector in my small country alone that could be automated away using twenty year old technology. But the public sector doesn't care primarily about ROI; they care about keeping their budgets growing every year. Since the public sector also strongly dislikes increased unemployment, nothing happens.