From Machines to New Skills: Rethinking Labor in the Age of Intelligent Automation
Author(s): Archana Pandey
Publication #: 2605023
Date of Publication: 10.07.2022
Country: India
Pages: 1-11
Published In: Volume 8 Issue 4 July-2022
Abstract
The role of technological advancement in labor market evolution in the past was evident in the way it has affected the relationship between labor and productive capital. Intelligent automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics are some of the signs of an advanced form of technology-based change in which tasks rather than entire occupations are substituted. This research paper seeks to examine the process by which intelligent automation leads to disruption of labor relations by eliminating labor from existing tasks while creating new tasks for jobs. Using the economic theory of tasks, theoretical bases, historical experiences, and the available empirical literature, this paper examines how technology is responsible for changing the nature of tasks in the production process. In this research, I examine the process by which intelligent automation eliminates labor from established tasks, increases the productivity of labor, and reincorporates the displaced labor into productive activities via the creation of new tasks. It emerges that intelligent automation does not do away with labor but rather transforms its nature leading to increased demands for skills such as cognition and creativity.
Keywords: intelligent automation, artificial intelligence, labor markets, technological change, skill transformation, robotics, employment restructuring, task-based economics
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