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How to prevent the 'robot apocalypse' from ending labor as we know it

  • Written by Thomas Kochan, Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
How to prevent the 'robot apocalypse' from ending labor as we know itFears of robots taking nearly half of human occupations have been overblown.Mykola Holyutyak/Shutterstock.com

It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of another dire warning about the future of work.

Some alarmists fear a “robot apocalypse,” while others foresee the day of “singularity” coming when artificial...

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