Here’s why robots are actually going to increase human employment Published on the 26th February 2021 Published by World Economic Forum in collaboration with Forbes. Contrary to popular fears about job losses, the World Economic Forum predicts that automation will result in a net increase of 58 million jobs. The fear that machines will render large swaths of people unemployed is vastly overblown. By taking over the drudgery of repetitive tasks and the danger of more perilous ones, automation will free up humans to do more challenging work—interfacing with customers, developing better products, and yes, managing those [...]