The difficulty in filling job vacancies may jeopardize the viability of many companies, and one solution in the medium and long term is the promotion of robotization and the use of artificial intelligence.
As early as 2020, a report by the International Federation of Robotics noted that the higher the density of robots per country, the lower the unemployment rate and the higher the GDP per capita.
With the advent of Covid 19, automation processes became essential in areas such as construction, agriculture and food industry, vaccine production, etc.
In 2018 the World Economic Forum projected that machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025, but that in this context of robotic revolution 58 million new jobs will be created in the next 5 years alone.
The biggest challenge of automation is the relocation of people who previously performed repetitive tasks to new, more sophisticated and higher-paying jobs, a trend led by Singapore and Japan.
Chile must make strides in the short and medium term, but it is already a good sign to have a National Artificial Intelligence Policy.
Hector Pincheira | Austral Newspaper
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