In addition to quantifiable gains in productivity and quality, automation has consistently proven to increase something else: anxiety. Robotics, thanks in part to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) have entered into the general public’s and mainstream media’s consciousness with stories that attempt to predict what jobs might become automated, prompting headlines like these:
- Robots: Is your job at risk?
- Robots to destroy jobs and lower wages, says new study
- How robots will even affect the jobs of people we though were immune
