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How many of you believe robots and artificial intelligence will take jobs? How many of you believe machines will take your job? Robots, AI and other disruptive new technologies are expected to displace a significant number of office and manual labor jobs that pay $20 to $40 an hour, according to a 2014 Pew Research Center report. It won't happen all at once, and that's a blessing and a challenge. Slowly, then quickly, machines will replace certain human jobs. We might not hear about most of them because they'll happen in pockets of geographies and industries. But in the not too distant future, we'll see the great extent that robots are among us, and that people will no longer be able to apply for the jobs that some humans work at today. How robotics and AI will change jobs has been top of my mind since the national election's emphasis on bringing back jobs to the USA.