According to Stephen Hawking, the real danger we face isn’t mass unemployment due to robots/AI, it’s the unequal distribution of the resulting wealth:
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
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