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<\/p>\nThere\u2019s a message coming from lots of companies around us: \u201cin the future, we will design everything on a 3D software, then we\u2019ll send this file to a machine and that machine will build it. The machine will have the necessary knowledge to do so, and to do it without a mistake. I don\u2019t mind if we\u2019re talking about a milling process, 3D printing, plastic injection or whatever you can think of: this will happen to most technologies. We don\u2019t know when this is going to happen, but we know it is going to happen.\u201d We\u2019re not hearing this message in Silicon Valley, but right here in the Basque Country.<\/p>\n
This will mean that lots of employment positions will disappear<\/strong>. Of course, new ones will be created too, but they won\u2019t be as many as the ones vanishing.<\/p>\n Have you heard some \u201ccrazy ideas\u201d in the media lately, such as robots having to pay taxes? O universal rent? Or self-driven vehicles substituting taxi drivers? This is where all these rumours are coming from. And we\u2019re not talking about sentences coming from politicians: most governments are not looking at this right now, and it might be too late by the time they do so.<\/p>\n Is our society ready for this change? It doesn\u2019t seen so, and only due to our politicians. Taking a look at the employment data in the Basque Country, we find a significate fact: salary wise, the gap between high standard jobs (including engineering) and low standard positions has increased. The average is ok, but averages often hide lots of information. Is this a sign of what\u2019s to come? Low standard jobs tend to be automated<\/strong>, and therefore wages are lower. We hear the economy is doing better, but it might just be increasing this gap.<\/p>\n Add another fact to the equation: the presence of women in engineering is not very high. In Spain is about 18%. Our degree in eco-Technology in industrial processes<\/a> has had some higher rates at some point (33 to 40%), but it doesn\u2019t seem like a trend. And, if as a consequence, women do not have access to this high standard positions, what\u2019s the labour future for women<\/strong>? Will it get worse than what it already is? Fair enough, there\u2019re some other areas where women are a majority, but those areas will be reduced too, since IA is going to take over everything: health, administration, construction or the taxi industry.<\/p>\n We might reach a situation when only those behind (or above) IA do get a proper job. It might be far away, but it is a possibility.<\/p>\n What can be done in this situation? We don\u2019t have a magic answer, but looks like studying engineering can be a good option these days. Just in case.<\/p>\n It could also be that we\u2019re wrong, and none of this is going to happen. Anyway, being ready for that it won\u2019t do any harm. That\u2019s what we\u2019re trying to do.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.jobfie.es\/noticias\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/podcast-1060interfase-inteligencia-artificial.png\")
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