Robots weld vehicle panels at the Nissan Sunderland Plant in North East England. Forecasting the effect of automation on the global workforce is difficult. Oli Scarff/AFP Predicting the course of technological progress is extremely difficult.
Just because worries about human obsolescence ultimately turned out to be misplaced in the Industrial Revolution doesn’t mean that the same happy result must necessarily prevail this time around. So the persistent question about artificial intelligence – or “robots” in common parlance – is whether they will make human workers obsolete.
Already, occupations that employ very large numbers of people, such as commercial trucking, are under […]
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