MIT economist David Autor is one of the leader experts on our rapidly changing world of automation and potential for human labor substitution. In a wonderful article for the MIT Sloan Review entitled, "The Shifts – Great and Small– in Workplace Automation," he unpacks the reality that middle skill, highly-repeatable jobs (both cognitive and manual) are at risk of machine automation. But he also states that this overlooks the other reality; that when machines automate certain sub-sets of jobs,...
Published on February 05, 2017 07:18