Could robots take over our jobs?

Artificial Intelligence could either lead to global mass unemployment or create new jobs that we cannot yet imagine. Artificial intelligence "will soon destroy millions of human jobs," warned Gerd Leonhard of The Futures Agency, a speaker at Tata Communications' CEO Summit 2016 earlier this month. "In five years most companies will have armies of very cheap, very powerful machines, connected to a smart cloud, and they will be able to accomplish so many routine processes," the Zurich-based futurist said. "Some 25 years from now machines, through cognitive computing and using vast amounts of data from humans, will do all of that kind of work." A select cluster of 60 business leaders attended the two-day conference at Coworth Park in Ascot, which both educated and provoked.