Most people would rather lose their job to a robot than another human

If you were going to lose your job, would you prefer to be replaced by a robot or another person? If you said robot, you're in the majority. Most people would prefer a robot to take their job if they had to lose it, but they would prefer to see another human step in if a co-worker was going to lose theirs. "Being replaced by modern technology versus being replaced by humans has different psychological consequences," says Armin Granulo at Technical University of Munich in Germany. He and his colleagues set out to examine these differences.