Jobs that are dangerous or involve repetitive labor are most at risk of becoming obsolete as automation continues to rise. And that means some racial groups will suffer more than others.
Americans favor assigning to robots jobs that are dangerous and unhealthy for humans rather than those that require human sensibilities (such as caregiving and driving), according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. Latinos, especially Latino men, are heavily overrepresented in those challenging, and oftentimes repetitive, roles …
Proposals to tax robots and automation, among other efforts, seek to curtail the spread of new technologies. But assuming those […]
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