In a 2016 event, the late University of Cambridge professor Stephen Hawking said that artificial intelligence will be “either the best or the worst thing ever to happen to humanity.”
Young Brazilians expect the latter, unsure of their job opportunities in a world where robotics and automation have an increasingly more significant role in companies. Consequently, it would become much more challenging for regular people to find jobs, and income inequality would grow.
The Pew Research Center has published a survey on how advanced and emerging economies worry about job automation. The study was performed in ten such countries and...