"A report put out in February 2016 by Citibank in partnership with the University of Oxford predicted that 47% of US jobs are at risk of automation.
In the UK, 35% are. In China, it's a whopping 77% — while across the OECD it's an average of 57%.
And three of the world's 10 largest employers are now replacing their workers with robots."
"We can do this, I am an enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year.
To learn above all a measure of humility."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality