Steve Woods is co-founder and CTO of Nudge.ai, a relationship intelligence platform. When the machines took over farming, a new set of industrial jobs blossomed. When the robots took over the factories, we moved to IT jobs that had never previously existed. Now that AI is taking over another swath of jobs, a wave of as-of-yet-unheard-of jobs, will soon flourish. The thinking that leads to this conclusion has a long, decorated history going back to Joseph Schumpeter's description of creative destruction in the 1940s.

Steve Woods is co-founder and CTO of Nudge.ai, a relationship intelligence platform. When the machines took over farming, a new set of industrial jobs blossomed. When the robots took over the factories, we moved to IT jobs that had never previously existed. Now that AI is taking over another swath of jobs, a wave of as-of-yet-unheard-of jobs, will soon flourish. The thinking that leads to this conclusion has a long, decorated history going back to Joseph Schumpeter's description of creative destruction in the 1940s.

Today, Mark takes on that ongoing tension of artificial intelligence and jobs, looking at how things are looking for jobs in Government administration, healthcare, and education. Public sector jobs could be under threat by robots in the next 15 years, according to a new report by The Reform think-tank. As technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, the report explains, there is a growing opportunity to improve efficiency to the tune of billions of pounds by engaging robots to undertake certain tasks. The tasks that these bots can undertake, however, may have ramifications for civil servants' jobs. The co-author of the report, Alexander Hitchcock, has put this caveat on The Reform's think-tank: "Such a rapid advance in the use of technology may seem controversial, and any job losses must be handled sensitively. But the result will be public services that are better, safer, smarter, and more affordable."