Robots Will Make Half Of Humanity Unemployed

Here is a university professor who appears to agree with what I have been saying for quite some time:

Machines could put more than half the world’s population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial intelligence’s threat to the economy should not be understated.

Expert Moshe Vardi told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): “We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task.

“I believe that society needs to confront this question before it is upon us: if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do?”

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Vardi insisted that even if machines make life easier, humanity will face an existential challenge.

You can read the rest @
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/13/artificial-intelligence-ai-unemployment-jobs-moshe-vardi

He's finally getting to the heart of the matter.

"An existential challenge" = the possible end of humanity, as in:

dead
bás
dauða
décès
död
død
dood
halál
heriotza
kuolema
marwolaeth
mewt
mirtis
moarte
mort
morte
muerte
nāve
śmierć
smrt
smrť
surm
Tod
vdekje
θάνατος
смерть
смерць
смрт
смърт
טויט

Any way you say it, in any language, robots shall end our existence.

Get the picture?

Considering how eager the rich have been to eliminate our jobs and promote the development of AI, this should have been obvious to anyone who is paying attention.