It is a question that is not going away: how much should we worry about intelligent machines stealing our jobs? Yet the debate feels stuck in a rut, fought over the narrow terrain of how many jobs might one day be automated. Is it almost half of jobs, as Oxford university academics Michael Osborne and Carl Frey predict? Or about a tenth, as the OECD believes? The discussion over this number seems to have become our yardstick for how much we should care. But we are so obsessed with this “how many” question that we have forgotten to ask one just as important: “where”?
這是一個揮之不去的問題：我們應該在多大程度上擔憂智能機器竊取我們的工作？然而這場辯論似乎一直在原地踏步，糾結于最終會有多少工作被自動化取代這個狹隘的話題。是不是像牛津大學(Oxford University)的學者邁克爾?奧斯本(Michael Osborne)和卡爾?弗雷(Carl Frey)預測的那樣，將有近一半工作被自動化取代？或者像經合組織(OECD)認為的那樣，約十分之一？關于該數字的討論似乎成了我們應該多關心這一問題的判斷標準。但我們如此執著于這個“多少”的問題，以至于忘了提出另一個同樣重要的問題：“哪里”？