© 2000 Todd Neller.  A.I.M.A. text figures © 1995 Prentice Hall.  Used by permission.
Motivation for Intelligent Agents
•Automation - people expensive, machines cheap
•When $$$ is all that matters, why not automate everything that saves a buck?
•Industrial Age : Luddites :: Information Age : Neo-Luddites
•Global competition, survival of the fittest, job specialization, automation
•What about job satisfaction?