In addition to quantifiable gains in productivity and quality, automation has consistently proven to increase something else: anxiety. Robotics, thanks in part to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) have entered into the general public’s and mainstream media’s consciousness with stories that attempt to predict what jobs might become automated, prompting headlines like these:
Given the general tone of the automation discussion lately, you can understand why the headline for a recent press release from International Federation of Robotics (IFR) caught my attention: Robots Create Jobs—New Research
So, yeah, consider the source—the IFR certainly has a dog in this […]
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