What a Digital Worker Could Mean for the Human Workforce

Image credit: Andrey_Popov / Shutterstock. Article by Joe Phelan. Discover – January 21, 2023.

With the rise of artificial intelligence and other technologies, virtual or digital workers may threaten some jobs even as they boost other opportunities.

People have long feared that technological innovation and progress could negatively impact their jobs. As history has proven time and again, such worries are far from unfounded. For example, in the early 1900s pinsetters would manually reset bowling pins following a successful strike. By the 1950s, automated pinsetting technology had rendered this role all but obsolete. The same is true regarding […]

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