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Others aren’t sounding the same alarm.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor David Autor last year presented research showing that middle-skill jobs like bookkeeping, clerical work and repetitive tasks on assembly lines are being rapidly gobbled up by automation.

But higher-paying jobs that require creativity and problem-solving, as well as lower-skilled jobs that are resistant to automation have grown rapidly. The result has been a more polarized labor market and stagnant wages.

And IBM CEO Virginia Rometty last year said automation won’t destroy the job market. “This is not about replacing people. It is about augmenting what man does….This helps us do things we couldn’t do,” Ms. Rometty said at a symposium.

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Key themes: reasons to be hopeful

1.Advances in technology may displace certain types of work, but historically they have been a net creator of jobs.

2.We will adapt to these changes by inventing entirely new types of work, and by taking advantage of uniquely human capabilities.

3.Technology will free us from day-to-day drudgery, and allow us to define our relationship with “work” in a more positive and socially beneficial way.

4.Ultimately, we as a society control our own destiny through the choices we make.

Key themes: reasons to be concerned

1.Impacts from automation have thus far impacted mostly blue-collar employment; the coming wave of innovation threatens to upend white-collar work as well.

2.Certain highly-skilled workers will succeed wildly in this new environment—but far more may be displaced into lower paying service industry jobs at best, or permanent unemployment at worst.

3.Our educational system is not adequately preparing us for work of the future, and our political and economic institutions are poorly equipped to handle these hard choices.

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