Robots could take up to 15 million UK jobs

Robots and artificial intelligence will'break the social ladder' and could cost up to 15 million jobs, new research has found. A study found that the increasing automation of jobs will hit poorer workers hardest and will further set back social mobility unless urgent action is taken. The research warns that automation could create a society in which an elite, high-skilled group dominates the higher echelon of society while a lower-skilled, low-income group is left with little opportunity to climb the social ladder. Robots and artificial intelligence will'break the social ladder' and could cost up to 15 million jobs, new research has found (stock image) Robots could take jobs from human workers and potentially spark an employment crisis, the boss of John Lewis warned last month. Sir Charlie Mayfield, 50, said new technologies, such as robots, would create massive changes across industry, with British businesses potentially among the hardest hit.