Paraphrasing a Source

     Both in fiction [2] and real life [11], there are many examples of robots facilitating the work that we do by performing dangerous or repetitive tasks which allow us to improve our productivity. However, we become concerned when robots are able to perform and improve upon the work that we do. I believe that in the short term, being replaced by robots affects both the people being replaced and society as this will lead to higher unemployment. How- ever, in the long term, this allows people to abandon performing repetitive and simple tasks and concentrate more on other jobs that are not tedious and monotonous. This also applies to workers who are not completely replaced by robots since they would have “assistants” for some of their tasks and would be able to work on more challenging tasks. Further, some of the current work that robots do is not flawless. As a result, not all people will be replaced, since companies do not want to risk losing customers due to bad service. Finally, it will take many years, or decades, for a complete work sector to be fully replaced by robots, which will allow current and future workers of that field to anticipate and prepare for this change if and when it occurs. 

My Paraphrase
     Robots do dangerous and boring things in order for humans to improve productivity; however, humans get nervous when robots are able to do things that humans do. Valez believes that robots replacing humans in jobs will cause bad things to happen in the economy.  In the long term, robots taking mundane tasks allows humans to get away from repetition and boredom.  Robots can also be assistant to humans and this allows humans to only get rid of the repetitive tasks while maintaining the thought provoking ones. Humans will also still be used in customer relations.  Robots are not yet perfect enough to solely use them as a customer service method.  It will be a long while before robots completely control any one sector or human work.  (Valez p. 3-4).