Experts: Robots will do 39 percent of our household chores by 2033

Researchers at the University of Oxford and Oganomizu University in Japan have been trying to figure out what impact robots will have on our unpaid day-to-day work. To get answers, researchers asked 65 AI experts from Japan and the UK what they see in their fortune-telling balls. One question asked: “If robots are going to take our jobs, can they at least pick up the trash for us?”

According to experts, automation can reduce the time we spend on food shopping by 60 percent. In terms of other activities, 50 percent of the time we spend will be handled by robots.

There will be less change with respect to soft values.

– Oxford University researcher Lulu Shi tells the BBC that only 28 per cent of care tasks are automated, such as teaching your children, taking them to school or looking after an elderly family member.

Gender equality can be promoted – but increase social divisions

According to researchers, automation will free up a lot of time currently spent on unpaid homework. In Britain, men do half as much work as women, and in Japan, men do less than a fifth of unpaid work at home. Researchers believe that growing automation will thus lead to greater equality.

– However, new technology can be expensive. Ekaterina Hertof, a professor of AI and society at the University of Oxford, says that if only a fraction of society can afford the systems that help us in our daily lives, it will lead to growing inequality when it comes to how much free time we have.

Source: BBC