Expert and Non-Expert Opinion about Technological Unemployment

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There is significant concern that technological advances, especially in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI), could lead to high levels of unemployment in the coming decades.

• Studies have estimated that around half of all current jobs are at risk of automation.
• To look into this issue in more depth, we surveyed experts in Robotics and AI about the risk, and compared their views with those of non-experts.
• Whilst the experts predicted a significant number of occupations were at risk of automation in the next two decades, they were more cautious than people outside the field in predicting occupations at risk.