The accelerating development of technology accompanied by the rise of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will exacerbate social inequality around the world, a World Economic Forum survey has suggested.
In only a decade, technology that belongs to the realm of science fiction could become a reality. This may include implantable mobile phones, 3D-printed organs for transplants, internet-connected clothes and even AI machines sitting on a corporate board of directors - at least according to executives attending the World Economic Forum in Davos.
However, this unprecedented evolution of technology – also referred to as the fourth industrial revolution – will probably come with many difficulties, unless the corporate sphere is prepared.
While in the past it was mostly manufacturing jobs that suffered from the emergence of automation technology, the rise of thinking machines now threaten jobs previously considered safe – such as entry level journalism.
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