“I love driving for Uber, but they want to replace me with driverless cars. I don’t know what will happen to me and everyone else, but there could be a revolution.”
A conversation with my Uber driver last week unearthed a new fear among many that few of the world’s business leaders seemed to have grasped – the real impact that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation could have on jobs and society.
Uber is just one company that has stated its intention to automate its business. The ride-hailing firm is testing autonomous cars, but chief executive Travis Kalanick said last year in an interview with Business Insider, that it would not wipe out jobs because “you’re still going to need a human-driven parallel, or hybrid”.