The truth is, we’ve had robots doing our work for a very long time now. We’re so accustomed to their place in our lives that we do not actually question their involvement.
But if we mention AI then all of a sudden everyone loses their mind, as though it is the first time a thinking automatron has helped our society. And that is the we think about it in the NPP.
There is no point taking our word for it: we simply make the policy decisions. Instead, we should look at what the experts say:
Study indicates that 80% of our jobs could be lost to robots.
How we think about this is key.