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Robots rule
Giles Wilkes (“Are only poets safe?,” January) describes the thesis of the book The Future of the Professions as “audacious.” The claim is not new, let alone audacious: since the 1970s at least there have been predictions of how automation and artificial intelligence would replace white as well as blue collar work. The internet and big data are now making that a reality.