From burger-flipping machines to car-building robots — not to mention high-powered software taking on more and more administrative tasks — automation is rapidly making hundreds of skills obsolete in the U.S. economy.
“Businesses are kind of looking and seeing that humans can get sick from Covid,” said Marcus D. Casey, an assistant professor of economics at the University of Illinois at Chicago. “Machines can’t. Even if we don’t see it right away, we surely see that there’s going to be a move toward more automation.”
A recent McKinsey study found that artificial intelligence and deep learning could add as much as […]
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