Advances in robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technology have spurred a re-examination of technology’s impacts on jobs and the economy. This article reviews several key contributions to the current jobs/AI debate, discusses their limitations and offers a modified approach, analysing two quantitative models in tandem. One uses robot stock data from the International Federation of Robotics as the primary indicator of robot use, whereas the other uses online job postings requiring robot-related skills. Together, the models suggest that since the Great Recession ended, robots have contributed positively to manufacturing employment in the USA at the metropolitan level.

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美国区域劳动力市场的机器人、技能需求和制造业

机器人和人工智能 (AI) 技术的进步促使人们重新审视技术对就业和经济的影响。本文回顾了对当前工作/人工智能辩论的几个关键贡献，讨论了它们的局限性并提供了一种改进的方法，同时分析了两个定量模型。一种使用来自国际机器人联合会的机器人库存数据作为机器人使用的主要指标，而另一种使用需要机器人相关技能的在线职位发布。总之，这些模型表明，自大萧条结束以来，机器人对美国大都市层面的制造业就业做出了积极贡献。