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Artificial intelligence threatens millions of jobs

Specialists agree that there will always be some need for human work in the future but robot replacements could drastically change the landscape, with no profession safe

Published Sun, Feb 14, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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ADVANCES in artificial intelligence will soon lead to robots that are capable of nearly everything that humans do, threatening tens of millions of jobs in the coming 30 years, experts warned last Saturday.

"We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task," said Moshe Vardi, director of the Institute for Information Technology at Rice University in Texas.

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