Thank you.
With that productivity stagnation or the issues we're seeing, we've also seen our manufacturing sector decline quite sharply in the last three or four years. We're seeing declines in the employment, the output and the shipments. Your perspective is that further AI adoption would perhaps turn that around and we could have greater outputs.
I think the concern of a lot of people is that AI and robots are going to replace the jobs of those in manufacturing, but what I did find interesting was that—and you may be aware of this—recent StatsCan survey data showed that companies adopting robotics managed to, somewhat paradoxically, increase their workforce by roughly 20%.
Do you have any experience with that? Can you comment? Should we be concerned that AI may take all of our manufacturing jobs?
