From self-driving cars to carebots for elderly people, rapid advances in technology have long represented a potential treat to many jobs normally performed by people.
But experts now believe that almost 50 percent of occupations existing today will be completely unnecessary by 2025 as artificial intelligence continues to transform businesses. This could put some people’s livelihoods at risk.
“Experts predict that 50 percent of occupations today will no longer exist by 2025 as people will take up more creative professions,”said Martin Chen, Chief Operating Officer of Genesis.“This means that jobs will develop and so will real estate development.”
Workspaces with rows of desks will become completely extra, not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose no longer exists, according to the report.“The next fifteen years will see a revolution in how we work, and a corresponding revolution will necessarily take place on how we plan and think about workplaces,”said Peter Andrew, Director of Workplace Strategy for GBRE Asia Pacific.
A growing proportion of jobs in the future will require creativity intelligence, social skills and the ability to apply artificial intelligence.“And for most people that will be a route to happiness and fulfillment,”the report states.
Data in the US suggests that technology already destroys more jobs than it creates, as GDP has been able grow faster than employment since 2000. A 2014 report by Pew Research found 52 percent of experts in artificial and robotics were optimistic about the future and believed there would still be enough jobs in the next few decades.
The optimists imagined “a future in which robots and digital agents do not replace more jobs than they create,”Microsoft’s Jonathan Grudin told researchers that: “Technology will continue to break up jobs, but more jobs seem likely to be created. Although there have always been unemployment people, when we reached a few billion people there were billions of jobs. There is no shortage of things that need to be done and that will not change.”
8. What will put some people’s livelihood at risk in fifteen years of time?
A.Self-driving cars and carebots. |
B.Artificial intelligence. |
C.Business. |
D.Real estate. |
9. Why will desks in offices be unnecessary by 2025?
A.The office revolution will make people rethink about their work. |
B.The desks will no longer be fit for the purpose. |
C.There will no purpose of using the desks. |
D.The development of technology removes the need for desks. |
10. What can be implied in what Jonathan Grudin said in the last paragraph?
A.There will be billions of people in fifteen years of time. |
B.Enough jobs will be created for everyone to choose from. |
C.Robots and digital agents create more jobs than they destroy. |
D.People needn’t worry about their jobs in the future. |
11. What can be the best title of the passage?
A.2025, A Jobless World. |
B.2025, Robots Leave Humans Unemployed. |
C.There Will Be No Desks in future. |
D.Half of Our Jobs Will Be Unnecessary by 2025. |