This may be the heyday for human workers. Unions are once again increasing pay and growing memberships in the southern states. Companies are expanding requiring more workers. Many of those workers need no skills to be hired while others will require intensive training. Currently the United States has hundreds of thousands of job openings for unskilled and skilled blue collar workers. Hundreds of thousands more are needed in education, medicine, engineering, and other professions.

            Heydays are always followed by down days and this time it might be a permanent situation. Artificial intelligence or AI will jump start the massive use of robots to mostly eliminate the line workers in packing plants, manufacturing, transportation, and most other businesses. They will do the work faster, better, hour after hour without lunch, bathroom, sick days or vacations!

            Hundreds of thousands of people have already been eliminated in the auto manufacturing and other businesses over the past few decades. As many people will be put out of work by terminator-looking robots in a very few decades. Instead of a connection to a computer bank AI will allow for autonomy equal to or better than a human mind. Robots have always had a problem with change or inconsistencies but AI will enable them to solve the problems immediately.

            This is also the heyday for white collar workers most of who should already know they will be replaced. With AI’s ability to imitate the human voice and face, creativity by humans will be replaced by AI.

            The question is whether the movies were a vision of the future or can humanity overcome its own inventions.