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Dull, dirty and dangerous jobs will be the last. Why waste a perfectly good and expensive robot if a cheap human can do it?


Disagree on 2/3. Dull tasks are some of the best for robots - their attention never wanders, they never get fatigued, and their performance is always going to stay consistent. Dangerous jobs are already being given to robots - just look at the military. Even outside of that, humans getting hurt means liability/expensive insurance (not to mention bad publicity).

Humans will probably be stuck with the dirty jobs, though.




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