Britons think artificial intelligence will cost jobs… but not their own
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Six in ten expect more jobs will be lost to robotics and AI than will be created.
By Matthew Smith
BT will reportedly be shedding up to 55,000 jobs by the end of the decade with up to a fifth replaced by technologies including artificial intelligence.
The results of a new YouGov poll show that almost two thirds of Britons (64%) believe ‘more jobs will be lost to automation by robotics/AI than will be created’, with a mere 7% expecting they will create more opportunities than they close down. One in eight (12%) expect numbers will remain about the same, while 17% are unsure.
Among workers themselves, 62% expect more jobs to be lost than gained. Yet when they are asked whether jobs like their own will primarily be done by humans or by robots or AI 30 years from now, the majority (59%) still see a human future. Only a quarter (25%) expect their line of work to become dominated by machines.
Likewise, few workers say they are worried about the impact that robotics or artificial intellige...
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