Automation poses threat to Irish jobs, new survey finds

Automation poses threat to Irish jobs, new survey finds

I, robot: A customer, right, looks at a Kokoro Company humanoid robot at the reception desk of Henn na Hotel, in Nagasaki, Japan Three out of four Irish people think automation and robots will cause unemployment, a new survey claims.

However, the iReach poll also says that most people believe robots will be good for the economy, estimating that the jobs under threat may exclude their own. The poll of 1,000 people found that just 16pc see "no threat" to employment in Ireland as advances are made in technology.

And 76pc of Irish people believe that job automation will contribute to […]

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