Automation risks hitting the region’s low-skill industrial posts Can it do your job? © Reuters Cai Fang did not mince his words. Last month the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences called for drastic measures to slow the spread of automation and ward off a possible new era of technologically driven unemployment.
"We must cap the speed and restrict the direction of robotics’ development to avoid any bad effects on human beings," he said.
Fang, who is also a standing committee member of China’s National People’s Congress, joined a growing line of influential figures demanding protection from machines, […]
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