Considering recent developments in artificial intelligence, how will today’s automation technologies impact manufacturing workers? To understand the likelihood of an impending robocalypse, this paper explores how small factory owners in Ohio conceptualize automation. Due to the risk of replacing entire production processes and the still-relevant capabilities of old equipment, the firms interviewed for this study primarily automated in order to complement rather than replace existing technologies. This incremental, piecemeal strategy will hinder the introduction of more integrated automation systems that may presage fully-automated manufacturing, thus ensuring the existence of manufacturing jobs for the foreseeable future.

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重新部署还是机器人末日？俄亥俄州制造业中小企业的工人和自动化

考虑到人工智能的最新发展，当今的自动化技术将如何影响制造业工人？为了了解即将发生的机器人末日的可能性，本文探讨了俄亥俄州的小工厂主如何将自动化概念化。由于更换整个生产过程的风险和旧设备的相关能力，本研究采访的公司主要实现自动化，以补充而不是取代现有技术。这种渐进的、零碎的战略将阻碍更多集成自动化系统的引入，这些自动化系统可能预示着全自动制造，从而确保在可预见的未来制造工作的存在。