What Will Robots Mean for Future Workers?
August 2, 2019
Robotics and artificial intelligence will, like earlier technological advances, lead to higher industrial productivity that will benefit workers by creating more better-paying jobs, says the head of a think tank focused on innovation economics. Perhaps. But this picture is now less certain, a scholar of these trends recently argued in Issues, noting that society needs to tap insights from educators, psychologists, and testing experts to fully understand how the new technologies affect work and workers and how society should respond.