Star Wars Can robots write blog posts? Asking for a friend. A new study out of Boston University, picked up by Quartz , studied the impact of automation on the American workforce between 1990 and 2007. The findings indicate that robots pose far more of a threat to the American worker than do, say, illegal immigrants.
The study found that for every additional industrial robot added to the workforce, employment in that "commuting area" was reduced by between three and six human workers. Adding insult to injury, every one of our new metallic friends lowered wages by between .25 and […]
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