70% of occupations could become automated over next 30 year
Is 2014 the year YOUR job will be taken by a robot? ‘Jobocalpyse’ set to strike as droids are trained to flip burgers, pour drinks – and even look after our children
Scientists predict a ‘jobocalypse’ as robots take over manual jobs
A huge 70% of occupations could become automated over next 30 years
Drivers, teachers, babysitters and nurses could be replaced by robots
Could mean the end of the eight-hour, five-day working week
By MARK PRIGG
PUBLISHED: 12:04 EST, 20 January 2014 | UPDATED: 16:32 EST, 21 January 2014
Experts are predicting a ‘jobocalypse’ as robots take over manual jobs, while scientists at Cambridge warn that machines should have their intelligence limited to stop them outsmarting us.
A new version of the movie RoboCop (out February 12) shows us a future where technology revolutionises law enforcement, but that is just the tip of the iceberg for robotics.
‘I believe we are the inflection point where robotics are going to change everything you know and do,’ says Ben Way, author of Jobocalypse, a book about about the rise of the robots, told MailOnline.
