People who have viewed automation and artificial intelligence with a sense of dread may be beginning to appreciate how it can reduce the boring, repetitive work that is the bane of their lives. In fact, rather than being a threat to human contributions to the enterprise, automation is a powerful enabler of creative, innovative work.
An unwillingness to accept new technology goes back to the beginning of the Industrial Age when people (including the original Luddites ) saw machines as infringing on their livelihoods. But the opposite proved true, as industrialization increased employment. Nevertheless, that wariness about new […]
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