Will you lose your job to a robot?
Editor’s note: Economist Tyler Cowen, who is well worth a read, sets out the salient points . . .
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Rise of the robots: what will the future of work look like?
Editor’s note: If machines have already engineered the escape from poverty, then work-sharing is a sensible way of “spreading the work” that still has to be done by human labour, says Rpbert Skidelsky.
Study: dumb robots cause students to learn more quickly
Editor’s note: Study shows Japanese children learn English quicker when they correct the intentional translation errors of a toy robot – exploiting a well-known fact among educators that students learn best when they help teach others.