Unsettling New Statistics Reveal Just How Quickly Robots Can Replace Human Workers

Unsettling New Statistics Reveal Just How Quickly Robots Can Replace Human Workers

They don’t sleep, don’t need health insurance, and usually don’t embarrass themselves at the work Christmas party. Robots might make employers happy, but new research shows just what kind of impact this could have on the structure of the US economy and the shape of its future workforce.

A pair of economists from MIT and Boston University have published a report at the US National Bureau of Economic Research outlining the cost of swapping human labour for programmed machines in areas such as manufacture, agriculture, research and development, and even education.

The results aren’t exactly great for workers in those labour […]

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