Many of you have spent your lives acquiring knowledge as doctors, lawyers and teachers. The bad news is that this world is about to be swept away by the digital revolution. We are on the brink of one of the great revolutions in human history. And we're going to have products, services that will make more and more of your skilled labour redundant, useless. There's no value.
Technology might move fast but the fears surrounding it remain ever-present. Back in 2015 Intelligence Squared gathered both tech evangelists and technology naysayers to debate how robots and AI might swallow up jobs in years to come. The speakers included economist, commentator and author George Magnus, internet entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen, technology entrepreneur, presidential advisor and economist Dr Pippa Malmgren, and author and journalist Walter Isaacson. Chairing the debate was journalist and broadcaster Zeinab Badawi.
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