If someone has been thought that the arrival of the robots to fill the jobs humans can be the solution to the pension of the future , you can go to parking the idea. At least, this is the conclusion that follows from the analysis that a group of experts who have been given an appointment this Thursday in Madrid at a conference organized by the International Financial Analysts , (AFI) under the title “ what Paid robot our pensions?”
The idea of recording the work of the robots as a measure to ensure the future income of retirees, it is considered as totally inefficient by the professor of digital economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Seth Benzell. Among other reasons, because the society still is not prepared for such a transformation.
Nuria Oliver, director of Research in data Science Vodafone, ensures that the challenge is to completely modify the design of the work and the concept of retirement that we drove in today because it is “obsolete”.
New working relationships
Both experts considered that before taking decisions such as that to record the work of the robots, considering that they were in labour force and non-material productive work in designing the society that artificial intelligence is designing.
Benzel, has been recognized that the major international agencies are already handling that artificial intelligence is going to be the source of a good part of the jobs that will be created in the future. In the case of Spain, the OECD predicts that 12% of the new jobs will be automated, the 33% in the united States, according to studies from McKinsey. This means, according to the MIT professor, that “we don’t need people to work 40 hours a week.”
in Addition, this new reality causes another phenomenon: the polarization of employment. We’re off to a labour market with workers very well-trained winning a lot of money and workers to do tasks that can be done by machines, and, therefore, very poorly paid.
The basic income, gains adherents
so talking about the retirement in the terms in which we speak today has little meaning according to these experts. Before you have to tackle a new management of employment relations. “Artificial Intelligence will serve to complement the work of the human, making the tasks more mechanical but it will be humans who continue to take the critical decisions,” says Nuria Oliver.
The challenge of the pension may be different, according to Oliver, when the system is updated. Working in the education of the people and changing careers, will also change the relationship with the work and retirement of the new generations. “It makes No sense to talk about a retirement age, the system of work and retirement has to be more flexible”.
For Benzell, the global debate on the future of pensions is more closely linked to the reduction of inequalities to the funding as described in the currently. According to the professor, artificial intelligence allows a significant increase in productivity which until now are becoming the new multinationals. It is necessary for the society to learn to channel the wealth of that productivity to the workers. “When that happens people will have more time to prepare in tasks of innovation and, above all, be able to do it for much longer than their predecessors,” says the MIT professor.
And in that context both experts give much probability to the need for a universal basic income that covers the basic needs of the citizens. With these insured income, it solves the problem of ensuring an income to unskilled workers for jobs in technology, but also ensures the rest a base on which to channel the innovation.
