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Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus

Will Robots Take Your Job?: A Plea for Consensus

Cameron, Nigel M. de S.

Hardcover

Series: New Human Frontiers

LaborHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 1509509550
ISBN13: 9781509509553
Publisher: Polity Pr
Published: Jul 5 2017
Pages: 176
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English

The trend that began with ATMs and do-it-yourself checkouts is moving at lightning speed. Everything from driving to teaching to the care of the elderly and, indeed, code-writing can now be done by smart machines. Conventional wisdom says there will be new jobs to replace those we lose - but is it so simple? And are we ready?

Technology writer and think-tank director Nigel Cameron argues it's naive to believe we face a smooth transition. Whether or not there are new jobs, we face massive disruption as the jobs millions of us are doing get outsourced to machines. A twenty-first-century rust belt will rapidly corrode the labor market and affect literally hundreds of different kinds of jobs simultaneously.

Robots won't design our future - we will. Yet shockingly, political leaders and policy makers don't seem to have this in their line of sight. So how should we assess and prepare for the risks of this unknown future?

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