Automation Risk Quotes

Sooner or later, the U.S. will face mounting job losses due to advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and robotics.

Try to master technology instead of it mastering you.

My biggest worry is that no one seems to notice that we are not going to stop the technical progress that is going to continue to displace people through automation.

I don't think that globalisation is anywhere near the threat that robots are.

There's always new work to do. Adjusting to the rapid pace of technological change creates real challenges, seen most clearly in our polarized labor market and the threat that it poses to economic mobility. Rising to this challenge is not automatic. It's not costless. It's not easy. But it is feasible.

If you raise the minimum wage, you're going to make people more expensive than a machine.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

The message behind 'Time Is Up' is that robots are starting to take over the world, and we should be aware of it because they're already walking among us.

I don't buy into the dystopian scenarios of self-aware robots enslaving mankind, but you don't have to be a sci-fi conspiracy theorist to acknowledge that plenty of good, well-paying jobs are being taken over by machines.

If your business is really easy to do, don't gloat. You might be out of a job soon.

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

In addition to replacing many jobs, automation will also transform other jobs. Professions involving high touch, personal relationships - such as clergy, dentists, and financial advisors, for instance - face the least risk of automation but will nevertheless be profoundly transformed.

A bomb is blown up only once—but one bot can become many, and quickly get out of control.