We need to provide high-quality training in high-demand sectors of the economy, such as health care, advanced manufacturing, and retail logistics, that improves the earnings of less-educated or displaced workers.ĭisadvantaged workers will need more support to complete such education, including occupational guidance and child care. More workers will need reskilling or upskilling-whether on the job or in higher education institutions (both public and private). The onus is on K-12 and postsecondary schools to adapt and provide greater emphasis on teaching such skills.Īt the same time, displaced workers and those facing lower compensation will need to retrain to perform new tasks in new or changing jobs. These include communication, complex analytical skills that often require careful judgements of multiple factors, and creativity. To become complementary to AI, more workers will need what researchers call 21st century skills. Our most important challenge is to improve the breadth and quality of education and training. New and better policies should be adopted in the following areas: education and training, “good job” creation by employers, and wage supplements for workers.
At the same time, we will need a much more robust set of policy responses to make sure that workers can adapt, so that the benefits of automation are broadly shared. So we must ask: Is this time really different? Will the ability of workers to adapt to automation by gaining new education and skills be swamped by the frequency and breadth of tasks that machines with AI will perform?ĪI will increase the challenges many workers will face from automation, while still contributing to higher standards of living due to higher worker productivity.
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The new automation will eliminate millions of jobs for vehicle drivers and retail workers, as well as those for health care workers, lawyers, accountants, finance specialists, and many other professionals. Indeed, the new automation will eliminate millions of jobs for vehicle drivers and retail workers, as well as those for health care workers, lawyers, accountants, finance specialists, and many other professionals. This can potentially affect college graduates and professionals much more than in the past. The “new automation” of the next few decades-with much more advanced robotics and artificial intelligence (AI)-will widen the range of tasks and jobs that machines can perform, and have the potential to cause much more worker displacement and inequality than older generations of automation. The new automation: Is this time different? In general, workers with at least some postsecondary credentials are often made better off, while those without them often suffer losses. For instance, while robots have displaced unskilled workers on assembly lines, they have also created new jobs for machinists, advanced welders, and other technicians who maintain the machines or use them to perform new tasks. Very importantly, workers who can gain more education and training, either on the job or elsewhere, can learn new tasks and become more complementary with machines. Edited by Zia Qureshi and Cheonsik Woo 2022
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