AI, Robotics, and 4IR — What You Need To Know

Are we on the cusp of a new World-view or global employment tsunami?

Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and other recent tech innovations are forecast to impact up to 50% of Global employment. And this time it could be different from previous Industrial revolutions.

If Artificial Intelligence and Robotics displace humans on a mass scale the human in human society becomes marginalised; this could be the legacy that we leave to the future.

4IR

In recent years there have been major advances in several technology areas that collectively have been labelled 4IR. 4IR will have an impact in two ways that will affect us all: employment; and information privacy and security. Through this article, I hope to raise awareness of the impact of 4IR, and how serious it will be.

4IR Will have a Dramatic Global Impact on Employment

Robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR), Analytics, and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) are some of the 4IR technologies. These technologies are at an advanced stage of understanding and development. It has become clear that these technologies can be combined and applied to a wide range of industrial, commercial and social applications. What has also become clear is that over the…