19.My mother finds more achievable with children as a school dinner lady rather than operating computers but some decades ago my mother was replaced by a computer.Her job was pressing buttons on an electromechanical adding machine to work out electricity bills.
In my generation I am faced with just how far this growth of technology will go in replacing not just jobs but more fundamental aspects of being human.
A Deloitte report published today suggests that 60% of jobs here in the North East are at high risk of being replaced by robots and artificial intelligence.Yet the implications(含義) are complex.Brynjolfsson and McAfee in The Second Machine Age argue that while some jobs will disappear,others will be created and some existing jobs will become more valuable.This situation is extremely important for education,training and financial field.
But are there wider implications for spirituality?Will these intelligent machines become conscious and what might this mean for our self-understanding of what it means to be human?
Here we need to be careful in dealing with the complex relationship of science and science fiction.Humans and Alex Garland's Ex Machina present an almost inevitable appearance of intelligent machines with consciousness.However,the science is still uncertain about this possibility of intelligent machines,even if the fiction raises useful questions.Equally,those who directly rule it out by claiming that human beings will always be unique need to take scientific advances seriously.
As for me,I welcome intelligent machines taking away dull work,but also want to engage in the discussion of how we structure our world so that all can experience what it means to be fully human.And if the intelligent machines eventually appear as self-aware and with a capacity to love,then why should they not be loved by God?
32.Faced with the intelligent machines,the author's mother feelsA.
A.more comfortable as a dinner cook
B.a(chǎn)imless for the future life
C.satisfied with the current situation
D.hopeless with intelligent machines
33.According to Brynjolfsson and McAfee,what kind of job will still exist?D
A.Farmer.
B.News presenter.
C.Security guard.
D.Accountant.
34.What does the underlined word"it"refer to in the fifth paragraph?B
A.The science of intelligent machines.
B.Intelligent machines with consciousness.
C.The science fiction involved useful questions.
D.Appearance of human like intelligent machines.
35.What is the structure of the passage?C