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The Sunday Debate: The Robots are Coming and They Will Steal Our Livelihoods

Intelligence Squared

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Are We Going to Lose Our Jobs?

Two researchers at oxford univer ity have argued that over the next ten years, forty seven % of our jobs will become irrelevant. The self driving car, of course, will make the driver the u p s delivery person, redundant. And as jeff bezoss amazon has publicly said, he wants drones to be delivering his product. So does so many other e commerce companies. What we're seeing is a hollowing out of the middle class,. A replacement by the algorithm, by the machine, and by a tiny group of people who own and troll that machine. That's the reason i'm afraid, why you should be afraid, very afraid. Thank you.

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