A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could replace so many jobs that the era of mass employment could approach to an endIf you wanted relief from stories approximately tyre factories and steel plants closing,you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill Lynch which looks at the likely effects of a robot revolution.
But you might not end up reassured. Though it promises robot carers for an ageing population, it also forecasts enormous numbers of jobs being wiped out: up to 35% of all workers in the UK and 47% of those in the US, and including white-collar jobs,seeing their livelihoods taken away by machines.
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Source: theguardian.com