By Sean Welsh, researcher in robot ethics at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Robots will replace many humans: perhaps most humans in the workplace.
Automation has been eliminating human jobs since the Industrial Revolution. Human drivers will soon become obsolete, along with human bricklayers. Indeed even high-status “cognitive” jobs in law and medicine are threatened by robotic replacements.Oxford Business School writers Carl Frey and Michael Osborne predict massive technological unemployment over the next 20 to 30 years. Something like half to three-quarters of existing human jobs are “vulnerable to automation” they say.The question is: will new jobs be created […]
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