Robots Do Not Destroy Employment, Politicians Do

I'm not worried about artificial intelligence, I'm terrified of human stupidity. The debate about technology and its role in society that we need to have is being used to deceive citizens and scare them about the future so they accept to submit to politicians who cannot nor will protect us from the challenges of robotization. However, there are many studies that tell us that in 50 years the vast majority of work will be done by robots. We have lived the fallacies of dystopian estimates for decades. I always explain to my students that, if we believed the fifty-year-forward studies of the past, it has been seventeen years since we have run out of water, oil, and jobs. Fifty-year estimates always suffer from the same mistakes.