How Many Robots Does It Take to Replace a Human Job?
A new study looks at how recent technology innovation has affected workers thus far.
by Gillian B. White
Mar 30, 2017
2 minutes
Last week, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said he wasn’t worried at all about advancing artificial intelligence taking over jobs anytime soon. In fact, he said, he wouldn’t be worried about it for for another 50 to 100 years.
As I recently, many experts would disagree and the economists Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne estimate that around of workers currently perform tasks that could be automated in the near future. And the World Bank estimates that around of jobs could be automated within the next 20 years.
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