Millennials raised on tech are fine with it replacing them
Millennials bored by low-level ﷺse🐷rvice jobs say bring it on — automate their jobs, please.
And advanced technology is doing just that in spades — 🎐with some 2.5 million jobs at risk in New York City alone because of artificial intelligence, according to a study by Oliver Wyman Forum.
“I see it as a benefit, which is a different perspective than many in the older generation,” said Acamea Deadwiler, a 30-something writer and author based in Las Vegas who recalls being𓆏 dazzled by the automated mail carts that replaced humans at her former workplace.
“They could move on and off the elevators, and drop mail at yo🍎ur desk — it was pretty cool,” she told The Post. “But when I told older members of my family, they were appalled at the idea people could be put out of work because of this technology.”
Deadwiler is one of a growing number of millennꦏials who enthusiastically support🔯 more work automation — especially of the boring parts.
That puzzles some analysts, since that generation is so heavily in debt, saddled by an🍒 average of more than $30,000 in student loan balances. Plus many millennials are in low-paid serꦬvice jobs that could soon be eliminated by bots.
The ex🔯planation for their fervor may lie in a new survey by global outsourcing company SKYES.
It shows that millennials beꦑlieve they have personally benefited from tec⭕h advances more than older workers do.
While a laꦚrge majority of American workers overall says technology has not yet helped them with the d𓆉rudgery of mind-numbing labor, more than 41% of 25-to-34-year-olds say they have been “assisted” by an automation program at work in 2019 — nearly twice as many as workers aged 54 and older.
“Today’s younger generations are digital natives, immersed in tech from childhoౠod, making them well-acquainted with how to augment their lives with technology,” Ian Barkin, chief strategy officer at SYKES, told The Post.
New York City may be the epicenter of this labor force transforಞmation.
Among 105 global cities in the Oliver Wyman Forum study, Ne𒊎w York ranked among the top three most prepared for the introduction of more artificial intelligence in the workplace.
Some millennials in New York and other trendsetting cities like San Francisco may be holding out for a government-funded univ🅷ersal basic income (UBI) — a guaranteed handout for unemployed workers replaced by bots, analysts say. More than half of US millennials support UBI programs, according to a Gallup poll.
“Surelyꦿ, one could argue that there’s a Hollywood element to this,” said Barkin, attempting to sum up the young US mindset. “Young adults are inundated with media that normalizes our lives, augmented by technology.”