Listening: Will Robots Take Our Jobs?

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B2 | Listening from video | 12 min

Will Robots Take Our Jobs?

Watch the whole video. You can watch more than once. Then answer the questions below. (5:45)

Choose the best answer.

1. What is the main point of the video?

____ Workers who fear new technology are usually proved right in the end.____ Fears about new technology are old, and the real fight is over who benefits.____ Jobs that AI exposes will disappear within the next five years.

2. According to the video, why did the Luddites smash machines?

____ Peaceful options had failed, so they hoped to force a negotiation.____ They hated all machines and wanted to stop new technology.____ They wanted the government to end the war with France.

3. What did the Hollywood writers and actors ask for in 2023?

____ A complete ban on AI tools in all film and television work.____ A bigger share of the profits and freedom to use AI tools.____ Better pay, protection for their work and limits on AI tools.

4. Which of these does the video say an AI cannot do?

____ Draft a contract for a client in a few seconds.____ Comfort a worried patient and explain a diagnosis with empathy.____ Read an X-ray scan and describe what it shows.

True, False or Not Given? Choose Not Given if the video does not say.

5. Skilled weavers' pay fell sharply after the new machines arrived.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

6. Workers in finance are more worried about AI than workers in manufacturing.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

7. The World Economic Forum expects new technology to create fewer jobs than it displaces by 2030.

____ True____ False____ Not Given

Complete each sentence with the words you hear.

A NUMBER from the video.

8. After the raid on the village of Arnold, roughly ____ knitting frames lay broken by the morning.

A NUMBER from the video.

9. At York Castle in early 1813, the authorities put ____ men to death.

A NUMBER from the video.

10. According to the OECD, around ____ percent of all jobs face a high risk of automation.

Will Robots Take Our Jobs?

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