article_snippet: Be afraid, be very afraid: the robots are coming and the robots will destroy our livelihoods.
article_snippet: Economists used a simulated economy to create a model plotting a range of possible robot scenarios.  
article_snippet: a model plotting a range of possible robot scenarios revealed the rise of robots will initially create a tech boom, but a tech boom will turn to bust as workers are forced from workers jobs and don't have enough money to pay for the goods the robots are producing .
article_snippet: A study into the impact of the emergence of artificial intelligence and the rise of robots last week warned A study into the impact of the emergence of artificial intelligence and the rise of robots will see unemployment soar, welfare costs increase and could even bring the global economy to A study into the impact of the emergence of artificial intelligence and the rise of robots knees.
article_snippet: The Internet Is Not The Answer” and ‘Digital Vertigo’, insisted Andrew Keen did not mean robots would be ‘science fictional beings that are going to replicate human beings’.
article_snippet: But robots would replace jobs.
article_snippet: No economist have been able to say to we concretely what are most people going to do ion a world where artificial intelligence dominates society.
article_snippet: A study by the US-based National Bureau of Economic Research warned that over time demand for new code and, thus for high-tech workers, will eventually drop and see such workers replaced by robot employees.
article_snippet: Lead researcher Seth Benzell said: 'Whether it’s bombing our enemies, steering our planes, fielding our calls, rubbing our backs, vacuuming our floors, driving our taxis, or beating our at Jeopardy, it’s hard to think of hitherto human tasks that smart machines can’t do or won’t soon do.'
article_snippet: For every robot you create you actually generate three or four new jobs.
article_snippet: It's going to open up a huge opportunity for people who have practical skills, who know how to weld metal, how to play with an engine, because then people who have practical skills, who know how to weld metal can take what robotics provides and innovate with robotics and create a whole array of new jobs that we haven't even thought of.
article_snippet: According to Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock, a research fellow in UCL Department of Science and Technology Studies,  care for the elderly and even children are among the jobs to be replaced by artificially intelligent beings within the next 50 years.
article_snippet: She research suggests human workers across a plethora of service sectors and caring professions could be replaced by droids within our lifetimes.
article_snippet: She believes that as the rapid advances in technology achieved this century are projected to continue at an astonishing rate, this will allow robots to break free of science fiction and establish robots in our everyday life.
article_snippet: According to She research - which polled 2,000 people about which jobs they thought were most unpopular and could be among the first to be given to robots for the TC channel Syfy - traffic wardens (65 per cent), estate agents (40 per cent) and car salesman (33 per cent) could soon be lost to history.