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Artificial intelligence: Job killer or your next boss?  Summary:
As software automates an increasing number of tasks, is it time
to reassess traditional workplace roles and create an office
that suits both man and machine?  Could information technology
become an engine of unemployment, automating roles that once
used scores of human workers?  Some writers and academics argue
this is already the case, blaming communications technologies
and automation for the falls in both wages and the number of men
finding jobs in the US over the past 40 years. The problem of
workers being displaced and wages being driven down will
continue to get worse, they argue, as increased computing power
and better software empowers computers and robots to take over
more roles in factories and offices.  The net result, argues MIT
economist Erik Brynjolfsson, could be a widening of the already
sizeable gap between the earnings of employees and employers,
and between coll