Jobs are disappearing across industries due to the advancement of automation, robots and artificial intelligence. You can be proactive and be part of the automation or you can take a wait and see attitude and possibly be automated out of a job. If you are in transportation expect your job to disappear or to change in the near future. Self driving vehicles are right around the corner and this will greatly impact the transportation industry.

Will trucking jobs eventually disappear? Mainstream media has been consistently covering the negative discourse about AI and the future of work, with conversations often led by tech giants like Elon Musk and Bill Gates. We are living in a time that is reflective of the early 2000's. I remember a world of hysteria and bunkers filled with food, insurance, and so on. There seems to be something missing within the argument that there will be no jobs in the future due to AI. Elon Musk and Bill Gates are both brilliant and hugely successful CEOs, but neither trait speaks specifically to their foresight.

Worldwide the critical question is becoming; what is the future of work in an era of exponential technology development? Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the big game changer. We already see narrow AI in use in internet searches, customer targeting applications, and in predictive analytics. But AI has much greater capability that will merge into every aspect of our lives in the future. Increasingly devices will learn more about us, provide an ever-increasing range of support and take on more of our tasks.

In the aftermath of the Brexit vote to leave, one of the Tweets that caught my eye was from founder and CEO of analyst firm HfS Research Phil Fersht, which simply said, "At least the British can stop worrying about robots taking their jobs. Just get rid of the jobs altogether…" While that may not be amusing as it plays out against our globalized economy, it demonstrates how this topic has taken hold of so many of us. About a year ago, I was asked to sit on a panel at the annual Constellation Research Connected Enterprise 2015 called "The Robots Are Here! The Future of HR Tech," to debate whether we're entering a dystopian existence where humans are the bottleneck to productivity and innovation or becoming a world of augmented humanity and digital humanization. It's a fact that major economic shifts have led to both marginalization, the downside, as well as great opportunity, clearly the upside.

The author reflects on new research reports on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on the workplace. His prediction: AI will make internal politics nastier within management ranks. Artificial intelligence is a hot topic these days. Not surprisingly, news outlets north of the 49th parallel jumped on the release of a new research report cleverly titled "The Talented Mr. Robot: The Impact of Automation on Canada's Workforce." The study was conducted by the Brookfield Institute for Innovation Entrepreneurship, a newly created independent and nonpartisan institute, housed within the Ryerson University of Toronto, dedicated to advancing Canada's innovation and entrepreneurship.

New developments in artificial intelligence and robotics put 42 per cent of Canadian workers at high risk of seeing their jobs disappear or significantly changed in the next two decades, a new report concludes. While advancing computerization has already made some jobs obsolete, the rapid development of artificial intelligence is poised to become a new "inflection point" for more dramatic job change over the next 10 to 20 years, said Sean Mullin, executive director of the Brookfield Institute for Innovation Entrepreneurship at Ryerson University. Mr. Mullin said computers are expected to take on jobs that previously required higher "cognitive skills" as new technology allows machines to learn on their own and apply their knowledge. "If that even partially comes true, we're going to see a much more fundamental restructuring of the labour force and potentially a much higher percentage of jobs at risk than I think we've seen in the past," Mr. Mullin said. The new Brookfield Institute research report examined all major job categories in Canada and applied a methodology developed in 2013 at Oxford University in Britain.

Many people find recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) quite alarming. Indeed, luminaries, ranging from Nobel laureate Stephen Hawking to technology pioneers Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have warned that artificial intelligence technology might be more dangerous to humankind than the atomic bomb. Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrum has argued that an "intelligence explosion" may lead to the extinction of humanity at the hands of rampant robots. These arguments distract us from the large and more imminent threat -- seismic loss of jobs, surging unemployment, and potentially calamitous social strife. This week, when the White House launches a sequence of workshops studying the future of AI, they should focus on the real dangers, not imaginary ones.