![]() Fear of redundancy: the first reason we can see replicates that of the first industrial revolution. ![]() There are several clear reasons I can perceive that may drive people away from AI which are: If the first industrial revolution was too much for the ‘luddites’ doing their best to stamp out mechanical progress, the reaction to AI and robotics is going to be even more unsettling. ![]() Just as steam power, electricity and ultimately computers have replaced human labour for mechanical and often mathematical tasks, AI looks set to supplant human thinking and creativity in a way which many see as unsettling. The technologies driving the upcoming revolution are artificial intelligence and robotics, technologies which have been the territory of sci-fi for generations which think and act as humans would. As with the first industrial revolution, what we know roughly is that change is being driven by technology, but we lack any concrete knowledge of how great the change will be or just how dramatically it will disrupt the world we live in. We are currently sitting on the precipice of the fourth industrial revolution which is set to re-think the way we live and work on a global scale. ![]()
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