Lucy Powell Quotes

Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Technology and robotics are advancing and will reduce the need for workers in the future.

We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.

If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.

Artificial intelligence is destroying the traditional world of work.

The 21st-century mix of jobs is probably going to be different than the 20th-century mix.

Amid all the job losses of the Great Recession, there is one category of worker that the economic disruption has been good for: nonhumans.

Technology magnifies differences, and it's been replacing or obviating jobs for a long time. But what happens as that case accelerates? I'm not one of these doomsayers who says, 'There will be no jobs.'

The spread of computers and the Internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers what to do, and people who are told by computers what to do.

Let's not kid ourselves here, robots already run most of our world. We'll be their butlers soon enough.

Musicians and journalists are the canaries in the coalmine, but, eventually, as computers get more and more powerful, it will kill off all middle-class professions.

Massive increases in productivity due to the happy marriage if information technology and advanced manufacturing techniques are having a chilling, unprecedented effect on job creations.

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders.

I think AI is the new electricity. Whatever industry you work in, AI will probably transform it, just as 100 years ago the rise of electricity transformed industry after industry—everything from transportation and communications to manufacturing to health care.

As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of 'do it yourself.'

At the end of the day, the truth is that if - when - robots prevail, so many vocations will actually become close to impossible. Save for the profession of making robots, that is.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

Technology is advancing at breakneck speed, upending old ways of doing business and resetting the social contract between employers and employees.

Automation has emerged as a bigger threat to American jobs than globalization or immigration combined.

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

To be sure, robotics are not the only job killers out there, with outsourcing stealing far more gigs than automation.

Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

Technological change is both familiar and easy to observe.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.