Robot door

Over the years I have found that machines are replacing people's jobs and  I sense that AI will make the problem worse. In political debates, many senior politicians seem to think the opposite is true, they think that AI and automation will create more jobs, I am skeptical of the idea that more machines and AI means more jobs. However, I thought about it and tried to imagine how more jobs could be created.

I thought of some ways that jobs could be created, I think more jobs connected to mining would be created. I know that gold is present throughout the Earth but the extraction of the gold is only profitable in a few places because the concentration of the Gold is too low to cover the costs of extraction but if you had machines doing all the work then places were the concentration is too low could be mined and still support a small workforce without making a loss. 

I also thought that robotic transporters would be able to move people from a remote part of the country so public sector workers could live in a different part of the country from their workplace and pay less for accommodation and they could be moved around to different sites.

It is true that robots and ai will create jobs but I think they will reduce more jobs than they create. I just hope that the difference is small. People think this is in the distant future but those people have forgotten about the apps on their phones. The banking apps on people's phones would allow banks to close down their branches. Human resources clerks are already being replaced by software systems.

The chances are that the person that is reading this now knows the answer because I intend for my writings to last longer than myself.