People don’t want to see workers replaced by a robot—themselves excepted

/ Robots are everywhere.

There has been extensive public discussion of how automation may fundamentally change the job market, eliminating so many positions that some sort of universal income will be required. While the universal income discussion may be new, anxieties about machinery and automation replacing human work , with worries growing with the advent of robotics and machine-learning algorithms.

In general, it‘s clear that people worry about jobs lost due to automation. But they tend to worry about job losses in general. To find out whether job losses due to automation produce a distinct set of worries, researchers did an […]

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