How AI and robotics are going to shape the workplace

Most jobs in the future don't exist yet beyond a spark of the imagination – that's what nearly half of young people believe. The future will be full of outlandish problems no one has even thought of – but there will be more need than ever for people with the critical and creative-thinking skills to tackle them. "We already know centennials are well aware that industries are undergoing exponential change," says Professor Nick Colosimo, principal technologist at BAE Systems. Some 47 per cent of young people expect to work in industries that don't yet exist, research by BAE Systems shows, while nearly two thirds (63 per cent) think that job roles will be more exciting than those of their parents' era. Advances in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), 3D printing and nanofabrication, automation and robotics will inevitably reshape the job market.