KineticaVoice: Should We Fear The Future Of Work?

But lest we dismiss these employment concerns as the plight of workers without college or graduate degrees, consider the following: doctors, pharmacists, and lawyers may also be at risk. Robots are already working as surgeons' assistants, recently outperforming humans in a test to repair a pig's intestine. At the top-ranked medical school and medical center, UCSF, a robot has filled and dispensed prescriptions received by computers for years, making no errors in 350,000 orders. And in the legal realm, software programs can scan documents to find words or concepts that used to take lawyers hundreds of hours of document review. Developments to be viewed with as much thrill as trepidation: safer surgeries, more accurate prescriptions, and lower legal costs.