Bad robot? Increasing automation must not drive workplace wage inequality, think tank warns
The government is being warned by a leading think tank that robots and workplace automation must be carefully managed, if predictions of mass unemployment and economic disruption are to be avoided.
According to the Institute for Public Policy Research , the government specifically needs to intervene to stop automation driving up wage inequality, although it did state that automation will ‘significantly increase productivity’ and that jobs would be reallocated, rather than lost.The report comes amid a debate over the future where artificial intelligence (AI) , robots, and increasing […]
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