Will Smart Machines Kill Jobs or Create Better Ones?

In one vision of the not-too-distant future, robots handle half of all work tasks, leaving legions of humans unemployed, uneasy and restive. In an alternate scenario, those same technologies revolutionize rather than reduce work opportunities for humans, raising living standards with new jobs that aren’t yet imagined. Such are the stakes as a new wave of automation reshapes the workplace.

Advances in artificial intelligence, or the capability of machines to learn by ingesting large amounts of data, are driving a rethink of what jobs only humans can do. A 2018 working paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research found […]

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