By Tom Coupe* of
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The robots were taking our jobs - or so we were told over a decade ago. The same warnings are regularly heard today about the likely impact of artificial intelligence (AI).
Tech breakthroughs have long stirred fears of workplaces being wiped out by automation, with generative AI platforms such as ChatGPT inspiring the latest round of occupational angst.
We often see this dread of AI replacing our livelihoods in news articles reporting on new worker survey findings, or in online forums talking of AI "job massacres".
A similar gloom pervaded earlier research speculating about the fut
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