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Japanese Learning
Technology - Robotics and the Future of Labor
N1 Conversation lesson 12: Technology - Robotics and the Future of Labor
💬Dialogue
AIやロボット技術の台頭は、既存の労働市場を根底から覆す可能性を秘めています。
The rise of AI and robotics technology holds the potential to overturn the existing labor market from its roots.
ええ。定型的な業務が自動化される一方で、人間にしか成し得ない創造的な仕事の価値が再定義されていますね。
Yes. While routine tasks are being automated, the value of creative work that only humans can accomplish is being redefined.
スキルの再習得、いわゆる「リスキリング」の機会を全うすることが、労働者にとって死活問題となります。
Completing opportunities for re-learning skills, so-called "reskilling," will be a matter of life and death for workers.
その通りです。技術に翻弄されるのではなく、いかに共生し、補完し合える関係を築くかが生存の鍵です。
Exactly. Instead of being tossed about by technology, the key to survival is how to build a relationship where we can coexist and complement each other.
はい。社会保障制度の再構築も含め、技術革新が格差拡大の助長にならないよう配慮が必要です。
Yes. Including the restructuring of social security systems, care is needed so that technological innovation does not facilitate the widening of disparities.
ええ。誰もが尊厳を持って働ける社会を実現するため、英知を結集して新しい労働の在り方を模索すべきですね。
Yes. To realize a society where everyone can work with dignity, we should gather our wisdom to explore new ways of working.
⭐Key Expressions
～（を）全うする
Describes completing a task, responsibility, or life fully.
～（を）根底から覆す
Indicates a massive change that alters the entire nature of something.
～（は）死活問題だ
Emphasizes extreme importance of something for survival.
～（を）助長する (-wo jochou suru - To facilitate / Encourage (negative))
When an action makes a bad situation worse or advance faster.
📚Vocabulary
台頭
たいとう
rise / emergence
根底
こんてい
root / foundation
覆す
くつがえす
to overturn / upend
翻弄される
ほんろうされる
to be tossed about / toyed with
助長
じょちょう
facilitation / promotion
英知
えいち
wisdom / intelligence
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