Self-driving cars will leave THIRD of people unemployed

The rise of the machines could leave a third of the population out of work. That's according to Dr Subhash Kak, a computing expert at Oklahoma University, who claims AI and self-driving cars will lead to mass unemployment. He also warns that as robots take control of the world, humans will slip into a life of'meaningless' misery. A report in November suggested that physical jobs in predictable environments – including machine-operators and fast-food worker – are the most likely to be replaced by robots. But it added: 'Collecting and processing data are two other categories of activities that increasingly can be done better and faster with machines.