Automated inspection machines and artificial intelligence aren’t designed to cost human workers their jobs; in fact, quite the opposite (Schools not preparing children to succeed in an AI future, MPs warn, theguardian.com, 12 October). This assists human workers with inspection processes, relieving them of more commonplace work, and allowing them to be redeployed to tasks that robots cannot do. In the future, inspection benches will include space for an operator and a robot to work in partnership as part of the quality control process of production. Industrial automation and the factory of tomorrow – Industry 4.0 – are driving the industry to find new ways to fit artificial intelligence into factories. These are crises of a kind that can only be solved by the employment, over many years, of an army of dedicated professional and semi-professional human staff.

Source: The Guardian October 13, 2016 18:33 UTC