Automation and AI: why I’m looking forward to the Robopocalypse

It’s confirmed. The robots are coming. And no, I’m not running scared.
A recent study by thinktank Future Advocacy predicted that automation will affect one in five jobs across the UK. Another survey by UK research firm ADP found that on in three workers believes his or her jobs will be replaced by robots within the next ten years. And prior to his death, super-physicist Stephen Hawking ominously said, “I fear that AI may replace humans altogether.”
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