page_title: Humans Need Not Apply
section_title: Premise
hierarchical_section_title: Humans Need Not Apply / Premise
caption_attribution_description: English: Lexus RX450h retrofitted by Google for its driverless car fleet. At the left side is parked a Tesla Model S electric car.
context_page_description: Humans Need Not Apply is a 2014 short film directed, produced, written and edited by CGP Grey. It focuses on the future of the integration of automation into economics, as well as the impact of this integration to the worldwide workforce. It was released online on YouTube on 13 August 2014.
context_section_description: The video focuses on the topic of robots' rapidly increasing usefulness through human society, discussing how automation will lead to a future where human labour is no longer needed.
  Early on, an analogy is made describing how humans once displaced horses from their jobs (by creating mechanical muscles such as automobiles), dismissing the argument that humans will always find new work, seeing as horses are not nearly as much used now. This analogy finishes by connecting the creation of mechanical minds, or "brain labor", will lead to robots ousting humans out of their occupations. Grey also discusses how economics is the force behind a future based upon automation. Grey concludes by stating that 45% of the workforce could be replaced by bots, a figure which is inclusive of professional, white-collar and low-skill occupations, and higher than the 25% unemployment figure of the Great Depression. To take one specific example, the video states that there are 3 million driving jobs in the United States and 70 million worldwide. Grey further states that even creative occupations are not secure, mentioning the bot-composed music in the background of his video.
  Additionally, the viewer is reminded that the video is not discussing or portraying a future based upon science fiction, using examples such as Baxter, self-driving cars (referred to as autos in the video) and IBM's Watson.
caption: A Lexus RX 450h retrofitted as a self-driving car by Google
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