Will Your Children Have A Job?
Are we on the threshold of a world where robots do most of the work?
Robots, artificial intelligence and automation are spreading beyond the assembly line to compete for many of our jobs. Economists forecast that as many as half of current jobs in the developed world could be lost to computers in a generation, and as many as two-thirds in manufacturing-heavy China. But what about the new jobs that will emerge? And could we be at the threshold of a world in which robots do all the unpleasant work leaving us free finally, in the words of JM Keynes, to learn how to live 鈥榳isely, agreeably and well鈥�?
(Photo: Robot hand holding an apple. Credit: Getty Images)
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Living with robots
Duration: 01:05
Contributors
Ayorkor Korsah - Senior Lecturer in Computer Science, Ashesi University, Accra, Ghana
Peter Frase - Author of "Four Futures" and editor at Jacobin magazine
Daniel Susskind - Fellow in Economics at Balliol College, Oxford - and the co-author with his father of 'The Future of the Professions', a Financial Times book of the year.
Rory Cellan Jones - 大象传媒 Technology Correspondent
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Angus Knowles-Cutler - London Senior Partner at the accountancy firm Deloitte - has done research on how automation might impact its clients.
Paul Josephson - Professor of History at Colby College, in Maine - speaking about the origins of听the 18th Century Luddite movement against new technology.
Broadcasts
- Fri 10 Feb 2017 09:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except Americas and the Caribbean & News Internet
- Fri 10 Feb 2017 12:06GMT大象传媒 World Service Americas and the Caribbean
- Fri 10 Feb 2017 23:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except News Internet
- Sat 11 Feb 2017 04:06GMT大象传媒 World Service except Australasia & News Internet
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