Working for a robot: Can artificial intelligence replace a person

No one argues that the accelerated development of technologies will change entire professional industries. Sergey Markov argues about whether there will be a place for a person in the future labor market

A paradise for techno-possessimists The debate about how quickly and on what scale robots can displace people in different professional spheres has been going on for a long time. Some believe that this will mainly affect routine operations, which will free people for creativity. Others warn that, firstly, humanity will not need such a number of creative specialties, and secondly, AI systems are already doing, and often successfully, what has traditionally been considered the prerogative of man — composing stories, writing articles, painting paintings and inventing musical works. Still others believe that our fears about this are exaggerated, and if robots can ever replace us everywhere, it won't be very soon. Who's right, says Sergei Markov. About the expert: Sergey Markov — Head of Experimental Machine Learning Systems Department, SberDevices Department, Sberbank PJSC. The substitution of the concepts 'Very soon AI will replace a person!' — similar words can often be found in...