Robots Taking Over—
Is Your Job Safe?
E
xperts
are
divided
over
the
role
robots
of
over
perfectly split, with 52% white-collar workers.
predicting an optimistic
“ A
number
of
path, and 48% worrying the
about the future.
the next decade, with
The
some arguing that they
sioned
will create more jobs
which robots
than they displace, and
and
others
that
agents do not
they could lead to in-
displace more
come inequality and a
jobs than they create,” respondents
breakdown
according
worrying
in
social
order.
The
“a
envi-
future
in
digital
to
Aaron that
this
warned
aspect
of
Smith, the report’s co- technical evolution will
findings
come
from a report by Earth
and
optimists
Beyond,
surveyed
author. But the pessi- lead to vast increases
mistic view was
which
income
inequality,
auto- masses of people who
two
are effectively unem-
individuals
ployable and the possi-
with expertise in artifi-
bility of breakdowns in
cial
the social order.”
thousand
almost
t h a t in
intelligence
(AI),
robotics and econom-
mation “will
ics, to find out their
d i s p l a c e spondents are united
predictions for the role
significant on one thing: the dis-
of automation between
n u m b e r s placement of work by
today and 2025. The
of
experts
blue- and to continue, and accel-
were
almost
Almost all of the re-
both robots and AI is going