The robo-apocalypse won’t be in your lifetime

The robo-apocalypse won't be in your lifetime

Berkeley

WILL the imminent "rise of the robots" threaten all future human employment? The most thoughtful discussion of that question can be found in Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) economist David H Autor’s 2015 paper, Why Are There Still so Many Jobs?, which considers the problem in the context of Polanyi’s Paradox.

Given that "we can know more than we can tell", the 20th-century philosopher Michael Polanyi observed, we should not assume that technology can replicate the function of human knowledge itself. Just because a computer can know everything there is to know about a car does not mean that it […]

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