The growth of mass automation and robots is unstoppable, but governments can do more to equip workers with new skills so that they can continue to play a useful role in the workforce, according to the chief executive of BT. Gavin Patterson told an audience at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona that rapid advances in artificial intelligence and robotics were likely to trigger big social and economic changes. “My view is that we need to embrace it,” he said. “The most important thing is to make sure the population embraces it [by] ensuring we help people with life-long learning and have the skills” so that they will feel included as the world advances. The popular fear about a future where robots take over manual…

Source: The Times February 26, 2018 17:03 UTC