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Tomorrow's 'new collar' jobs will be quite old-fashioned, our response should be too

  • Written by Samuel Wills, Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Economics, University of Sydney
imageTechnology will make things easier, but likely won't replace the human touch.Shutterstock

Artificial Intelligence (AI), inequality and globalisation were central themes of the World Economic Forum in Davos last week. Fearing that AI will destroy jobs, IBM CEO Ginni Rometty called for a future where jobs are not white collar or blue collar, but &ldqu...

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