Automation and the Next Job: teacher key

Jobs and Careers, grade 11 edition, written for 11th grade. Work keeps changing: some jobs fade, others appear. Government projections and a long study of job lists show how people prepare, what jobs pay and where hiring is expected to grow by 2035.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What did the researchers find about automation from 1980 to 2018?
   • Its negative effects were smaller than before
   • Its negative effects were over twice as great (answer)
   • It had no effect on employment at all
2. What does BLS say about its AI exposure categories?
   • They measure how many workers lost jobs to AI
   • They count how many workers use AI each year
   • They compare jobs, and do not show AI's effect (answer)
3. Why can a shrinking job still have many openings?
   • Workers who move on or leave must be replaced (answer)
   • Shrinking jobs always grow the next year
   • Openings are counted from unemployment insurance claims
4. According to the researchers, what happens after technologies that complement what occupations produce?
   • New work slows down
   • Nothing changes at all
   • New work emerges (answer)
5. What does short tenure include?
   • Only workers who were fired from a job
   • New hires, job losers and job changers (answer)
   • Only workers who are close to retirement
6. What does augmentation mean in the study?
   • Boosting what people can do (answer)
   • Replacing a worker with a machine
   • Cutting a job's pay

Words

• augmentation: boosting human work
• automation: machines doing tasks
• apprenticeship: learning by working
• median: middle value
• exposure: chance AI helps
• tenure: time with employer