Robots will kill 36M American jobs by 2030

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and automation sounded alarm bells for many technologists and US workers, fearful that these technological advancements would steal jobs. Soon after, we saw a period of correcting that assumption, with new information reassuring workers that humans would work with robots, and not be replaced by them. The reality will likely be somewhere in between this dystopia and utopia, according to a Thursday report from the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution. The report uses government and private data to develop both backward- and forward-looking analyses of the impacts on automation over the years 1980 to 2016 and 2016 to 2030 across about 800 occupations. SEE: IT leader's guide to the future of artificial intelligence (Tech Pro Research) While automation and AI will affect tasks for virtually every job in the future, as IBM's Ginni Rometty has posited, the impacts on workers will vary greatly, the report found.