Intelligence Report Predicts Robotics Will Replace Low-Skilled Jobs By 2025.
Computerworld (11/30, Thibodeau) reported, "The National Intelligence Council (NIC), in a report titled 'Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World'...offered its long-range strategic thinking about the military and economic challenges the US will face from other countries over the next 17 years, as well as the environmental challenges ahead." The document "also looks at technologies, and it includes some sweeping ideas about the future. ... By 2025, robotics technology will be far enough along to take over low-skilled jobs." According to the NIC, "that could provide benefits, such as enabling robots to be used to help provide care for the elderly. But the machines also may be far enough along 'to disrupt unskilled labor markets.'" The NIC added "that they could also affect immigration patterns by taking over some jobs now performed by migrant workers."
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