Economist Branko Milanovi?: Three Fallacies That Make You Fear a Robot Economy - Evonomics

Recent discussions about the "advent of robots" have some rather unusual features. The threat of robots replacing humans is seen as something truly novel possibly changing our civilization and way of life. But in reality this is nothing new. Introduction of machinery to replace repetitive (or even more creative) labor has been applied on a significant scale since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Robots are not different from any other machine.