Impact of AI, Robots, and Automation on Jobs: Tracking the “Hyperbole Cycle”

Impact of AI, Robots, and Automation on Jobs: Tracking the “Hyperbole Cycle”

I’ve been noticing how articles about how AI, robots, or automation will impact the future job outlook all seem to reuse the same terms, like “disrupt”, “steal”, or “threaten”. The thesaurus has only so many terms to go around I suppose. I got to wondering which terms were most popular, and then how they’ve changed over time.

So I ran some queries on Factiva. Factiva is a business information and research tool owned by Dow Jones & Company. My goal was not as much sentiment tracking as it was hyperbole tracking. By hyperbole I mean the breathless, panicky articles that […]

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