Global automation readiness. Who's prepared, who's in trouble? ZDNet

Video: Who should be liable for robot misbehavior? In early 2017, President Barack Obama's top economic and science advisers wrote a report entitled, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy. The report is a cleared-eyed collation of current data and predictions pertaining to the accelerating pace of adoption of automation and AI technologies starting from around 2010. The full report is worth a look, but the top line findings are probably familiar. The analysts found that the day when robots will replace all workers is still remote, and any timeline for that happening is speculative at best.