Robots, AI and jobs: radical and not-so-radical changes ahead.

The issue of robotics, artificial intelligence, and their impact on companies, economies, and society as a whole is one in which S&P Global takes great interest. I attended a recent forum on the issue sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, and published this overview on S&P Global's Global Credit Portal. Robots aren't here to take your job. Not yet, anyway, according to experts in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) who spoke at a conference sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Robotics and AI have tremendous disruptive potential and positive economic contributions to make, but the elimination of vast numbers of jobs as a result--in a relatively short time--may not be on the immediate horizon, speakers at the Nov. 14 session said. Inevitably, such a discussion turns quickly from the broad concepts of AI and robotics to a more specific application: autonomous cars.