Robots &AI to end manual labour and put half of world out of work in the next 10 to 20 years - global crisis
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Robots to end manual labour and put half of world out of work in global
crisis
Artificial
intelligence will soon be widespread in the workforce
ByLucy DomachowskiNews Reporterin Yerevan22:32, 7 OCT 2019 UPDATED15:41,
8 OCT 2019
Current Time 0:05
Robots will
make half of the world's workforce redundant in the next 10 to 20 years in a
global unemployment crisis, an AI expert has claimed.
Top US futurist Martin Ford said automaton will soon be
widespread, with all low-skilled jobs replaced by robots.
Ford, who focuses on the impact of AI
and robotics on the job market, warned we need to be ready for widespread
global unemployment.
He acknowledges the "long record of
false alarms," but argues that this time is different.
The pace of automation, he says, is no
longer linear, but exponential, like the growth in computing capacity predicted
by Moore's Law.
The economy, Ford says, will not have
time to create new professions to absorb the tens of millions of workers
displaced by automation.
"My primary concern is that as AI and machine learning and
robotics advance, a huge fraction of the jobs and tasks currently performed in
the economy are going to be susceptible to automation," he told the World
Congress on Information Technology in Armenia today.
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