In an era of mass unemployment will we become robots pets?

Industry associations and analysts are a special kind of nuisance. They write research papers with titles like: "A World Without Work;" "Anticipating a Luddite Revival;" "Our Work Here is Done;" "Who Owns the Robots Owns the World;" "Robots not Immigrants Could Take Half of Jobs;" and "AI and Robots Threaten to Unleash Mass Unemployment." These alarmist titles cause news editors to rely on the research papers like fortune-tellers rely on tealeaves. Despite the good intentions of the authors and their predictions the research evidence is limited and primarily correlational in nature, few studies have demonstrated a causal relationship between the impacts of robots on jobs. In the minds of many analysts and researchers, humanity is nearing a robot apocalypse where Robots will have taken over most jobs within 30 years leaving humanity facing its'biggest challenge ever.'