Episode 64: Are Robots Stealing Our Jobs?




Digital Dads show

Summary: Robots are showing up everywhere lately. They are checking us out at the grocery store and giving us money at the ATM. They are building cars on assembly lines. Is there anything an Artificial Intelligence driven robot can’t do? And the bigger question… what does that mean for our employment prospects in the future?<br> The experts disagree about the extent of job loss due to robot takeover in the next fifty years. But the signs suggest there will be at least some fallout. Some industries will be harder hit than others. Why do we care? Our kids. We want to make sure they don’t study a field that will disappear in the technological tidal wave. In this episode we dig in to the prospect of potential job loss, what fields will be affected, and which ones we believe are safe.<br> Join the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/digitaldadsfm/" target="_blank">Digital Dads Round Table</a><br> One Cool Thing<br> <br> * Brent – <a href="http://gizmodo.com/this-is-how-we-could-hide-our-planet-from-bloodthirsty-1768223112" target="_blank">Cloaking the Planet from Aliens</a><br> * Andrew – <a href="http://stemchallenge.org/" target="_blank">STEM Video Game Challenge</a><br> <br>