Damn. Can we have our technopanic back, please?
Special Report Today’s technopanic about robots and AI, largely created by the media, may be overstated.
New modelling published this week attempts to isolate the impact of industrial automation from other factors, and envisage what the economy might look like if the use of robots in industry increases, focusing on the impact on employment rates and working-class wages. Factory robots may have a significant impact on both – but only if the adoption of automation increases dramatically, the authors note. And it may not.In recent months headline-grabbing studies by consultants McKinsey and […]
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