Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are taken over by other workers.
But when their own jobs are at stake, people would rather prefer to be replaced by robots than by another employee.
Over the coming decades, millions of jobs will be threatened by robotics and artificial intelligence.
Despite intensive academic debate on these developments, there has been little study on how workers react to being replaced through technology.
Their findings have now been published in the renowned journal Nature Human Behaviour.
Human replacements pose greater threat to feeling of self-worth
Thin films made of carbon nanotubes hold a lot of promise for advanced optoelectronics, energy and medicine, however with their manufacturing process subject to close supervision and stringent standardization requirements, they are unlikely to become ubiquitous anytime soon.
"A major hindrance to unlocking the vast potential of nanotubes is their multiphase manufacturing process which is extremely difficult to manage.
We have suggested using artificial neural networks (ANN) to analyze experimental data and predict the efficiency of single-walled carbon nanotubes synthesis," explains one of the authors of the study and Skoltech researcher, Dmitry Krasnikov.
In their work published in the prestigious Carbon journal, the authors show that machine learning methods, and, in particular, ANN trained on experimental parameters, such as temperature, gas pressure and flow rate, can help monitor the properties of the carbon nanotube films produced.
"The development of human civilization and the advancement of the materials manufacturing and application technologies are closely interlinked in the era of information and technology, with both materials and computational algorithms and their applications shaping our day-to-day life.
This is equally true for ANN that have evolved into an indispensable tool for dealing with multi-parameter tasks, which run the gamut from object recognition to medical diagnosis.
The ability to sort out your thinking and then drop forever the frustration of trying to work around limiting ideas.Beliefs are our brain’s way of making sense of our complicated universe and managing it.
They are mental representations of how our brains expect objects to behave in our environment.
They tell the brain how things should be connected to each other, the patterns that our brain expects to adapt to the world.
Beliefs are models for successful learning and are also necessary for survival.The brain seems to be a value energy-organ and thus, needs to establish efficiencies that conserve our energy.
As a forecasting system, it takes shortcuts to identify trends, as it analyses the huge amount of information obtained by its sensitive organ growth from the environment.
Beliefs allow complex knowledge to be distilled by the brain, allowing it to categorise and analyse information easily and to leap to conclusions.Understanding how beliefs are shaped and how they form the foundation of future attitude and habits, is relevant because it can help to understand social phenomena such as bias and bigotry, aiding and violent behaviours.
The British Chiropractic Association has shockingly revealed that 33% of employees have taken at least one day off work due to back or neck pain last year, with almost half reporting that their pain is triggered by spending long periods of time sitting at their desks.
Ask for a workstation assessment from HR
The British Chiropractic Association revealed that just a fifth of the 1,643 workers polled had been offered a desk assessment, ergonomic chairs or laptop stands by their employer to help reduce the level of pain they experienced.
If workers use display screen equipment every day for more than an hour, then employers must do a workstation assessment.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) states employers must do an assessment when a new workstation is set up, a new user starts work, a change is made to an existing workstation or the way it’s used or when users complain of pain or discomfort.
Here are some tips to improve your posture at work:
There are also lots of desk chair accessories that can help to provide better support!
