Andes, Scott. “'Job stealing' robots are an economic distraction.” Brookings, Brookings, 12 Dec. 2016, www.brookings.edu/blog/metropolitan-revolution/2016/10/12/job-stealing-robots-are-an-economic-distraction/. Accessed 14 Sept. 2017.
Andes Scott, a writer of Brookings who focuses on science and technology, refutes the popular notion that artificial intelligence will take over human occupations and cause long-term unemployment in his article “'Job stealing' robots are an economic distraction.” In industries where technology is becoming more practical, such as transportation, robots are progressively taking over the jobs of hired employees. Scotts brings up the controversy to inform and suppress his audience’s worries about the ongoing innovations of modern machinery. Scott states “there is no correlation between adoption of robots and job losses in the manufacturing sector” and that policymakers should help society adapt to technological innovations (para 3).
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In foreign countries that depend more on automation than the United States, the rate of employment is higher than the rates in America. Businesses such as “Airbnb [and] Uber” have been founded after the growing industry of electronics (Scott, para 4). Automation has also decreased the costs of corporate labor; allowing enterprises to raise the incentives for work. Scott uses the invention of ATMs as an example to prove his point. After the implementation of ATMs in the late twentieth century, “the cost of operating branches reduced,” so banks were more capable of opening more branches (Scott, para 4). Consequently, the amount of bank tellers rose sharply. Workers now are earning themselves higher paychecks, for robots are reducing the prices of