Who should be worried about robots taking their jobs, and is there anything anyone can do about it? To find out, Ellen Fearnley, Stephanie Garey and Adam Burns are joined by Glen Willoughby, Chief Information Officer at Singularity University Labs and a former Special Adviser to NASA. Let us know what you think in the comments or email [email protected]. 

Key discussion points include:

* Is automation ever a bad thing?

* Why do we ‘automate’ factory workers but ‘augment’ doctors?

* The best ways to adapt and adopt new technologies.

* Is AI coming for creatives?

* Addressing the data problem.

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Resources mentioned in this episode

Time – Millions of Americans have lost jobs in the pandemic and robots and AI are replacing them faster than ever [Link]

Oxford Economics – How robots change the world [Link]

Slate – Do not be alarmed by wild predictions of robots taking everyone’s jobs [Link]

Meet the Boss roundtables [Link]

The Guardian – A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human? [Link]

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