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Will robots soon replace white collar workers?

2023-01-17T19:22:18.911Z


EXCLUSIVE - In A world without work, which appears this Wednesday, January 18 and of which we publish the good sheets, Daniel Susskind, economist and professor at Oxford in London, explores the consequences of new technologies and artificial intelligence on the labor market .


Awarded by many Anglo-Saxon media,

A World Without Work: Technology, Automation, and How We Should Respond

, released in December 2020, has been translated into French and will be published this Wednesday, January 18 by Flammarion, under the title

Un monde sans travail

.

Daniel Susskind offers solutions to think about this technological revolution, which is already upsetting and reconfiguring our entire economic and social model.

How far will the machine empire extend?

Gradually, stubbornly, machines enter the realm of tasks reserved for human beings.

Just take any device you can find - your smartphone, your laptop: you know that one day it will be obsolete.

This general trend is what I call “task encroachment”.

One of the best ways to see it in action is to think about the three main abilities we rely on.

First, manual skills, physical and psychomotor skills.

Then, cognitive functions, a...

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Source: lefigaro

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