AI Robots: job takers or job makers? - animate search

HAL 9000, The T-800, Data, Rachael, Bishop, KITT, Agent Smith, Holly, Mia, Teddy… you can't say we weren't warned. Travel back to a smoggy November 1st 1698 and as you flicked through your morning edition of the London Gazette, you'd have read about Thomas Savery patenting a piece of futuristic, unfathomable, super-technology – the world's first steam engine. Since then, cogs, belts, valves, microchips and code have allowed us to create ever more sophisticated automated technology. The rise of the machines has been coming for centuries. What do immigrants and robots have in common?