Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to
decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant
political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned.
In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that
"the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional
manufacturing, and the rise of artificial intelligence is likely to
extend this job destruction deep into the middle classes, with only the
most caring, creative or supervisory roles remaining."
He adds his voice to a growing chorus of experts concerned about the
effects that technology will have on workforce in the coming years and
decades. The fear is that while artificial intelligence will bring
radical increases in efficiency in industry, for ordinary people this
will translate into unemployment and uncertainty, as their human jobs
are replaced by machines. Cont. in Business Insider Uk