Ministers must ensure that the rewards of automation are fairly distributed, a report says.
Ministers are being urged to intervene to ensure the spreading use of robots in the workplace does not result in rising levels of inequality.
A report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) think tank said increasing automation had the potential to deliver a powerful boost to the productivity of UK business, bringing a future of “economic plenty”.However it warned that unless the change was properly managed by government, there was a danger that the benefits would be “narrowly” concentrated in the hands of investors and […]
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