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Will the AI jobs revolution bring about human revolt, too?

  • Written by Kentaro Toyama, Associate Professor, Technology and Global Development, University of Michigan
imageWhen everyone's out of a job, will workers unite?Inspiring/Shutterstock.com

The rise of artificial intelligence threatens to eliminate jobs once considered impossible to automate. One series of papers by Oxford researchers ranks jobs by their estimated susceptibility to automation. Among those most rated likely to vanish – because they...

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