The Robots Are Not Coming

The Robots Are Not Coming

(Image by Kai Schreiber / CC) If you follow technology, you could be forgiven for believing that humanity is standing the precipice of a robot apocalypse. It’s only a matter of time before automation eliminates so many jobs that humans will simply no longer be “needed.” Right?

Five years back, YouTuber CGP Grey made this case in his popular Humans Need Not Apply video. Since then, the labor market has not been transforming in the way that Grey had imagined. What gives?

In 2015, MIT economist David Autor published an essay entitled Why Are There Still So Many Jobs? The History […]

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