It’s a truth nearly universally acknowledged that the coming decades will see massive job destruction as artificial intelligence grows ever more sophisticated and robots become ever more skilled. Truck driving, various manufacturing jobs, and sundry other blue collar careers look increasingly imperiled. So too do other growth industries such as restaurant jobs and home health aide gigs.
That’s not to say, however, that only physical or unskilled labor is in danger. It’s widely thought that lawyers, physicians and (gulp) journalists could also lose their jobs also en masse due to automation.
An era of mass unemployment and penury would undeniably be […]
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