In a future where AI and automation are likely to lead to millions of displaced workers, it's essential that we don't leave coding to the robots, according to former Googler Megan Smith. As companies look to AI to cut costs and automate the most manual and time-consuming tasks, it's widely accepted that millions of jobs will be lost to the machines. Gartner believes that while AI will create 2.3 million jobs by 2020, it will make 1.8 million workers redundant as companies find the improved efficiency and cost-savings too tempting to ignore. And the Bank of England identified 15 million UK jobs at risk from automation over the next two decades, with chessmaster Garry Kasparov - who famously lost a match to an AI in 1997 - calling the job losses the cost of progress. Some believe such an impact on the economy should lead to governments giving people a universal basic income, which others have suggested amounts to putting people on welfare.