The Steel Collar Economy
We get into whether humanoid robots will fill Australia’s labour gaps and argue about whether AI will hollow out white-collar work.
A million new workers
In the next decade, Australia will see the introduction of hundreds of thousands of new workers assisting in our economy. But they won’t be humans. We will see humanoid workers helping, and in some cases, replacing, humans to perform a wide range of functions across nearly every industry imaginable. From mining to farming, from construction to elder care.
Every humanoid will have an AI brain, meaning it has a PhD in every topic.
What happens when the robot working beside you is smarter than you can ever hope to be?
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