Workforce Disruption Quotes

Are those 'terrible' machines really putting those people out of work? Or are they getting rid of a really dull job that we shouldn't be torturing people with?

Automation is going to cause unemployment, and we need to prepare for it.

We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job.

What I wonder is what would happen in California, say, if all the Mexicans left from one day to the next?

Any discrimination, like sharp turns in a road, becomes critical because of the tremendous speed at which we are traveling into the high-tech world of a service economy.

If you step back and look at technology from every era, it has displaced jobs but also created a lot of jobs.

Automation will significantly change many people's lives in ways that may be painful and enduring.

Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.

Most Americans agree that technology is going to eliminate many more jobs than it is going to create.

I'm not yet convinced that we will face an unemployment problem created by AI. There will certainly be some occupations eliminated - drivers of vehicles, many production jobs, etc. Whether this creates mass unemployment depends on how quickly this happens. If it happens overnight, it will be a huge disruption.

Advances in automation, artificial intelligence and robotics, while increasing productivity, will also cause major upheavals to the workforce.

We see these wonderful apps that really have changed our world in many good ways such as Uber or Airbnb, but at the same time, they're drastically changing the workforce. And they're changing them so much that the industries themselves are not able to keep up.

Technology is always creating jobs. It's always destroying jobs.

If the women in the factories stopped work for twenty minutes, the Allies would lose the war.