Robots will put millions out of work and worsen gender inequality

Robots will put millions out of work and worsen gender inequality

Mathew Lawrence, senior research fellow for the IPPR, said care needed to be taken that the economic benefits of automation did not just help the few.

The report starts off by stating that despite what some would have us believe, we are not on the "cusp of a "post-human" economy", where robots do all the jobs that humans now do.

Developments in robotic technology and artificial intelligence (AI ) mean that over the next 10 to 20 years, 44% of jobs could be automated and that machines will contribute earnings of £290bn, a third of the current UK GDP.A report by […]

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