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Automation
自动化
I’m afraid I can’t do that
人工智能取代人? 臣妾做不到哇
Reasons to be less afraid about the march of the machines
对机器人对人类工作岗位的威胁不必过分忧虑的原因
听力原文:
ARE robots coming to steal our jobs? For those manning the tills at pizza restaurants, the answer seems to be yes. In late May Pizza Hut announced that by the end of the year a robot called Pepper would start taking orders and payment at some of its Asian restaurants, providing a “fun, frictionless user experience”.重点词汇：
1 manverb 在…岗位上工作；操纵（机器等）；配备（人员）
2 till（大商店中的）交款处，收银台
3 frictionless 无摩擦的，无障碍的
4 hut 简陋的小房子（或棚、舍）
5 pepper 胡椒粉
听力原文:
There is plenty of research to suggest that restaurant workers are not the only ones at risk. One widely cited paper by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne at Oxford University found that as many as 47% of Americans work in jobs that will be highly susceptible to automation over the next two decades. But a new working paper by Melanie Arntz, Terry Gregory and Ulrich Zierahn of the Centre for European Economic Research paints a slightly brighter picture. The earlier study quizzed experts on the chance that a particular occupation could be automated, and then totted up the proportion of American workers in such jobs. But the newer study suggests that this method was too blunt.
重点词汇：
1 cite 引用；引述；援引
2 susceptible 易受影响（或伤害等）；敏感；过敏
3 quiz 盘问；查问；询问；讯问
4 tot 合计，共计 tot sth up 把…加起来；计算…
听力原文:
Digging into more detailed data, the researchers find that many jobs involve bundles of tasks, only some of which machines can easily handle. Take clerks in book-keeping, accounting and auditing: the earlier study said the odds of computers supplanting them over the next 20 years were 98%. But the newer study finds that three-quarters of those jobs involve some group work or face-to-face interaction—tasks robot struggle with. Applying a similar analysis to all jobs, they find that only 9%, not 47%, are at high risk of automation.
重点词汇：
1 bundle（一）捆，包，扎
2 clerk 职员；簿记员；文书
3 odds 可能性
4 supplant 取代，替代
听力原文:
Some caveats are in order: employers could restructure jobs to disentangle tasks that are more or less easy to automate. If that proves difficult, another possibility is that they simply forgo the human interaction now built into many occupations. A smile and some chit-chat once seemed an integral part of paying for groceries, until automated tills became commonplace. And finally, even if the 9% figure is closer to the truth, that still threatens the livelihood of millions. For the poorest quarter of the population, the proportion of jobs at risk rises to 26%, since more of them work in the sort of routine jobs most susceptible to automation.
重点词汇：
1 caveat 警告
2 disentangle 使解脱；使脱出；使摆脱
3 forgo 放弃，弃绝
4 chit-chat 闲聊；聊天；闲谈
5 integral 必需的；不可或缺的
6 grocery 食品杂货
7 automated tills 自动收款机
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