Robot revolution will put millions out of work and force governments to bring in human quotas, top lawyers warn
THE ROBOTIC revolution's devastating effect on human employment will force governments to bring in human job quotas, experts have warned.
A report from The International Bar Association, a global organisation for lawyers, found that the technological revolution will destroy the workplace as we know it.
Pascale Lagesse, Co-Chair of the International Bar Association, which represents lawyers across the world, issued a chilling warning that artificial intelligence, robotics and automation would "without doubt" bring about changes in society "in every sector and in every nation".
He added: "This fourth industrial revolution will concurrently destroy and create jobs and paradoxically benefit and impair workers in ways that are not entirely clear or not yet imagined."
This means that the law will have to change to cater for human workers' rights and ensure low income families are supported.
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We are already beginning to see how machines could nab labour intensive jobs.
A US company is planning to bring a fleet of robo-brickies, which promise to work "harder and faster" than humans, to the UK.
And machines are expected to replace 250,000 civil servants to save taxpayers billions by 2030.
The US government have even considered new insurance plans to help families who will have their income slashed in coming years.
The news follows comments from Astronomer Royal and top Cambridge prof Lord Martin Ree's comments that machines will not only overthrow humanity within centuries, but that intelligent life might evolve into "electronic entities".
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