The World Bank Says Robots Aren’t Killing Jobs Yet. Don’t Listen To It.

The World Bank Says Robots Aren't Killing Jobs Yet. Don’t Listen To It.

Photo: Natalie Behring / Getty The World Bank has released its annual World Development Repor t, and the headline news this go round, as relayed by Bloomberg and others , is basically that “Robots Aren’t Killing Jobs.” Which, good news, if true.

“This fear that robots have eliminated jobs—this fear is not supported by the evidence so far,” the World Bank’s Chief Economist, Pinelopi Koujianou Goldberg, told Bloomberg . More specifically, the report notes that for every job that’s been lost, new ones have been created. “This is the fourth industrial revolution, there have been three before, and in each […]

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