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BIS central bankers’ speeches  7  Still tougher challenges lie ahead. As Brynjolfsson and McAfee observe, “Computers [have] started diagnosing diseases, listening and speaking to us, and writing high-quality prose, while robots [have] started scurrying around warehouses and driving cars with minimal or no guidance”. 23 Technical progress has always left entire occupations behind, soon to be replaced by others.