If a ‘robot’ could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed?Today it’s travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat.
From health and education to finance and technology, his warning is stark: any job that is on some level routine is likely to be automated and if we are to see a future of prosperity rather than catastrophe we must act now..
Without a radical reassessment of our economic and political structures, we risk the implosion of the capitalist economy itself.
In a frightening tour of artificial intelligence’s rapid advances, technology expert Martin Ford draws on a wealth of economic data from both the US and the UK to outline the terrifying societal implications of the robots’ rise.
Soon it will be doctors, taxi-drivers and, ironically, even computer programmers.
If a ‘robot’ could do your job quicker than you and better than you for no pay, would you still be employed?Today it’s travel agents, data-analyst and paralegals whose jobs are under threat
