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What We Often Get Wrong About Automation<\/strong><\/p>\n

When leaders describe how advances in automation will affect job prospects for humans, predictions typically fall into one of two camps. Optimists say that machines will free human workers to do higher-value, more creative work. Pessimists predict massive unemployment, or, if they have a flair for the dramatic, a doomsday scenario in which humans\u2019 only job is to serve our robot overlords.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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