With all the conversation about how artificial intelligence will change our daily life, Ford CEO Jim Farley said that technological progress leaves some people behind.
It is the factory employees, construction workers and HLK installers who are “the backbone of our society”, he said on Aspen Ideas Festival On Friday in an interview with the author Walter Isaacson. The level of productivity for what he calls these “essential business assistants” have fallen, even if new technologies increased efficiency and made white jobs by 28% more productive, he said, referring to the Aspen Institute research. Farley also pointed out how there are millions of open roles for factory, construction and car technicians -jobs that have to deal with companies, he said.
“We cannot ignore it,” said Farley and added: “Ki, battery systems – they all seem to be exciting, but they all need HLK installers, they all need electricians. You need welding … what if you have to defend yourself – is – is – is – is Google Will you make the tanks? To be completely open, we forgot a lot about it … People don’t know how dependent we are as a country to do things in other countries. ”
Part of the problem, said Farley, was the lack of government expenditure for vocational training. Not much attention is paid to how robotics and augmented reality could increase productivity for productivity Work jobsSaid Farley.
Said Farley He expects robotics to replace a significant replacement Number of jobsBut said that the millions of open roles could not come close to that companies today have difficulty filling.
“So far, maybe 10%of our operations can be roboted. With the humanoid robot, it is maybe 20%. But it won’t be 80%,” he said.
Farley said that people do things in factory plants that robot still cannot do, and to an example of a worker in one of Ford’s plants in Germany, who creatively used a bicycle tire and a bike with a wooden slat to close a tailgate of a truck that was truck.
Farley confirmed that companies must have a plan to help their attendance crossing in this new one Age of artificial intelligence. But he said there must also be a social way of thinking.
“I think we have to return to the basics – at schools – and we have to have a society that doesn’t look down on such people,” said Farley.
During the conversation, Farley made a picture of his grandfather, who had joined Ford as an hourly employee, his 389th hiring. “Take a look around the room. At some point almost all of their families came from such jobs,” he said.
Farley said it was “very clear” for him that the technology has left many Americans.
“We have to acknowledge that these new technologies are great. They will improve many people, even people in the essential economy.” He said. “We have to have a plan for sustainability and we don’t have this plan today.”
