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Automation could wipe out 375-800 million jobs globally in the next 13 years, including 16-54 million in the U.S. But don't worry, there's a new job waiting for you:
The McKinsey Global Institute cautions that as many as 375 million workers will need to switch occupational categories by 2030 due to automation.
[...] "The model where people go to school for the first 20 years of life and work for the next 40 or 50 years is broken," Susan Lund, a partner for the McKinsey Global Institute and co-author of the report, told CNN Tech. "We're going to have to think about learning and training throughout the course of your career."
[...] "The dire predictions that robots are taking our jobs are overblown," Lund said. "Yes, work will be automated, [but] there will be enough jobs for everyone in most areas." The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing less risk from automation.
Also at Bloomberg.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Friday December 01 2017, @04:02PM
Human agency never went away.
I guess you missed my bit about humans setting up their alternate economies when that happens.
But there are already vastly more bullets in the world than would be needed to kill all seven billion people. Such a conflict will depend on a lot of things, but in theory, killbots would lose in the short term and win in the long term due to greater human numbers at first, and a faster production and training cycle for killbots later.
No, because people who don't play by those rules can win big. It's a lot easy to discourage killbot army creation, if there are huge negative consequences to doing so, like your factory becomes a smoking hole in the ground. But that means not being nice on occasion.