Bank of England sounds warning note over automation job losses

Tom Allen
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The scale of jobs lost to automation will be at least as large as those in the first three industrial revolutions

Artificial intelligence could cause disruption "on a much greater scale" than anything felt in the Victorian-era Industrial Revolution, says the chief economist of the Bank of England. Andy Hald...

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