A recent survey has predicted that the use of domestic robots will rise significantly in the near future. Those robots are actually an artificial replacement for human workers. They are programmed to do all sorts of tasks such as vacuuming, mowing lawns or even milking cows. In spite of the great technological advancement those robots mark, and the fact that they can really help raise our life’s quality and economy, I would like to express my concerns about this phenomenon.
My concerns are based on the fact that by buying robots to do those jobs, employers are damaging a lot of human workers’ livelihood. When a farm owner purchases a robot to milk his cows, he prevents his worker from doing the job, leaving him unemployed.
Moreover, I am not so sure that we can blindly rely on technology to do those jobs as well as humans. Even though our technology is advanced, it is still a field in which a lot of mistakes and faults occur. Those faults might be drastic in certain tasks. However, a human being’s work is much easier to supervise, since he would tell you when something is wrong- an ability robots do not possess.
To conclude, I strongly believe that we cannot wholeheartedly replace human workers with robotic ones. This might cause severe unemployment problems and might not be very reliable and safe. I suggest that instead of replacing us,technology should help us do things we cannot.
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Daphna.
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