This document discusses the changing nature of work due to technological advancement and automation. It defines work as tasks performed regularly in exchange for compensation. Throughout history, work has evolved from subsistence farming to more structured work in corporations. Now, many jobs are threatened by AI and automation, which can perform tasks like agriculture equipment operation, customer service, healthcare diagnosis, and retail assistance better and cheaper than humans. While some jobs will be eliminated, opportunities remain in education, technical skills, arts, and hybrid human-machine roles. Nations must invest in workforce training and potential solutions like universal basic income to address impending employment disruptions from AI.

1. NAME: FIBERESIMA FRANCISCA
EMAIL: franciscafiberesima@yahoo.com
The question before us today is understanding the changing nature of work and what government
and private sector can do to prepare and support the workforce. What is work? A simple
definition of work is the ability to perform duties or tasks regularly in exchange for wages or
compensation. For centuries and millennia, this has been the standard practice for humans in
order to provide for their selves and families, people had to engage in productive activity so as to
actively support each order and make progress. Over the years the nature of work has evolved
from primitive farming and hunting practices where one only had to work to support the
immediate family and into community driven endeavors where humans work as a team to help
each other make progress as a unit. In the modern day after the advent of the industrial era,
corporations and firms created the present working model in line with modern governments
where Work is more structured with better wages, benefits and health insurance for its workers.
This vastly improved the security and living conditions of humans who weren’t subject to as
much uncertainty as previous generations. Now we have come to a crossroads in human history
where the nature of work is threatened not because of human shortcomings but because of our
technological advancement , with the creation of super computers who have the processing
power no human brain could match and the introduction of Artificial intelligence , a great
number of existing jobs are threatened because companies are looking to save costs and
introduce non-human technology which operate autonomously and can perform the same tasks as
humans and in many cases even better. Some examples of Industries that face disruption and

2. could be threatened by Automation and A.I are:
1. AGRICULTURE - Modern tech has created automated tractors and harvesters that work
independently by eliminating the need for humans to manually operate it. Some of these
equipment plant, weed, spray herbicides and harvest crops without the need for any human to
work it. A single tractor can perform the tasks of a 100 humans in half the time which means
better crop yields but less jobs for low skilled workers
2. CALL CENTERS - Companies in the past had a team of employees tasked with handling
customer requests and complaints, they were often available round the clock to attend to various
needs of the paying customer, with the advent of AI and automation, these jobs are obsolete as
robots and AI have been trained to answer and respond to these customer requests.
3. HEALTH CARE - Health Care as an industry also faces a huge disruption as technology has
made it possible for AI and automation to identify diseases, high risks patients and also prescribe
medication for these conditions hereby making people less reliant on doctors who are human and
are prone to making mistakes and misdiagnoses.
4. RETAIL - We have grown accustomed to walking into stores and malls to be attended to by
staff who we pay to or ask for help regarding items in the shops, with the advent of automation, a
lot of these roles are becoming more and more obsolete as machine learning and automation are
in place to provide assistance for shoppers. There many more examples of Industries that are at
risks of eliminating the human face of work but all hope is not lost, with credit to human
ingenuity and ability to solve problems, human solutions are being put in place to help reduce the

3. human capital and employment disruption these would cause. Countries and the private sector
are encouraged to bring employees and citizens up to speed, by investing in education and tech
savvy skills, some of the automation still needs human control to initiate and observe the
process. A more radical approach is the introduction of a Universal Basic Income where
everyone is paid a living wage, this doesn’t sound very practical at the moment but certain
circles in academia and the tech industry are looking at the possibility. Arts and craftsmanship
with a human touch can never go out of fashion so more people should be encouraged to go into
design, sculpting, and literary works that need a human touch the audience can relate to.
The world is an ever changing place and the people and nations that thrive are the ones who have
foresight and are able to identify challenges ahead of time and create effective strategies to
combat it. They say a stitch in time saves 9, Automation and Artificial intelligence is here to stay
in the work force and humans can and will adjusts accordingly by creating new roles where they
become one with the system working hand in hand and not Excluded by the system.