High-earners less concerned about robot replacement

Are you worried about robots stealing your job?

Well, if you are earning over $80,000 (£50,000) it would seem you are less concerned than everyone else.  A new study by YouGov has found that just 37% of American workers with incomes that exceed $80,000 are worried about technological advancements and the possibility of being made redundant by a machine.

However, US employees earning less than $40,000 (£25,000) are more concerned about the issue. 15% of low income workers described themselves as “very worried”, whereas just three per cent of those earning between $40,000-$80,000 claimed to be so.

Just weeks earlier, Jerry Kaplan, author of Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, claimed that the automation of jobs “will not fall upon society evenly.”