chinese worker trust
88% of Chinese workers trust a bot over their human boss
The main worries surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its future is how one day, it'll prove to be the biggest job-killing technology of all-time, or worse even, the autonomous bots will group together and wipe out the human race completely. We're still waiting for hard evidence on how this might happen, but meanwhile in China, a study found that 88 percent of workers have more trust in robots than their human managers. The study, which was published on Tuesday by the US software company Oracle and the research firm Future Workplace, polled 8,370 employees, managers, and human resources workers in 10 countries from July to August of this year. Its findings revealed that China's trust level of robots in the workplace is well above the global average, with about two thirds of workers admitting they feel optimistic about having a robot co-worker. Find out at TNW's Hard Fork Summit "Over the past two years, we've found that workers have become more optimistic as they've adopted more AI in the workplace," Dan Schawbel, Research Director at Future Workplace said in a statement.