Innovation

The bots are coming!

If the headlines are to be believed, robots are coming for your job. Or are they?

29 June 2018

If the media hype is to be believed, the robots may well be coming for your job. In fact, late last year, McKinsey research showed that up to 800 million workers worldwide may lose their jobs to artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, while half of contemporary work functions could be automated by 2055.

Just how much of a threat is computer learning – as AI is sometimes called? What sort of jobs may be replaced by robots? And can we learn to coexist?

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