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Originally Posted by Seahawk

I prefer robots to soul.

Do you also prefer robots to jobs?

I agree that robotics have been responsible for major advances in the quality and reliability of the products they help build, but sometimes I wonder if it would be better for the greater good if we could accept a little less perfection and sterility in our world so that more people might have an opportunity to earn a living for themselves. All these efficiently-built products won't be doing us any good at all if no one has the money to buy them.

The Bank of England believes that machines might take over 80 million American and 15 million British jobs over the next 10 to 20 years, CNN Money reports, or 50% of the workforce in each of the two countries.

“These machines are different,” the bank’s chief economist Andy Haldane said. “Unlike in the past, they have the potential to substitute for human brains as well as hands.”

A recent Oxford University study quoted by Yahoo says that the jobs at risk of being replaced by robots include loan officers, receptionists, paralegals, salespeople, drivers, security guards, fast food cooks, bartenders.

Other jobs including marketers, journalists and lawyers might also be added to the list in the future, founder of Webbmedia Group Amy Webb said at the Milken Global Conference this year.