More Robots, More Violence?

By Johannes Paulsen

The age of the robotic worker will soon be nigh, reports Jeffrey Kaplan in The Atlantic, and it doesn’t look good for man. Note that I said “man”, not mankind. This isn’t a rant about a post-singularity Battlestar Galactica-esque revolt of machines against their masters, but rather a look at what will happen to the many who may soon find themselves unemployed thanks to automation, and according to a 2013 report by Oxford professors Carl Frey and Michael Osborne titled “The Future of Employment”, the jobs that are most susceptible to being replaced due to automation are those that men — not women — are most likely to do. Kaplan writes:

[M]achines are likely to take over 47 percent of today’s jobs within a few decades.

This is a dire prediction, but one whose consequences will not fall upon society evenly. A close look at the data reveals a surprising pattern: The jobs performed primarily by women are relatively safe, while those typically performed by men are at risk.

[M]any common professions exhibit a high degree of gender bias. For instance, of the 3 million truck drivers in the U.S., more …read more

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