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How to prevent the 'robot apocalypse' from ending labor as we know it

  • Written by Thomas Kochan, Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Fears of robots taking nearly half of human occupations have been overblown.Mykola Holyutyak/Shutterstock.com

It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of another dire warning about the future of work.

Some alarmists fear a “robot apocalypse,” while others foresee the day of “singularity” coming when artificial...

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