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”?
这是一个挥之不去的问题：我们应该在多大程度上担忧智能机器窃取我们的工作？然而这场辩论似乎一直在原地踏步，纠结于最终会有多少工作被自动化取代这个狭隘的话题。是不是像牛津大学(Oxford University)的学者迈克尔•奥斯本(Michael Osborne)和卡尔•弗雷(Carl Frey)预测的那样，将有近一半工作被自动化取代？或者像经合组织(OECD)认为的那样，约十分之一？关于该数字的讨论似乎成了我们应该多关心这一问题的判断标准。但我们如此执着于这个“多少”的问题，以至于忘了提出另一个同样重要的问题：“哪里”？