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The Future of Employment: Will Robots take your job?

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  • Duration: 4 mins
  • Publication date: 09 Apr 2019
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Abstract

The Office for National Statistics have released a report that 1.5 million workers in England are at risk of losing their jobs to automation.  We take a look at the imminent acceleration of robot integration into the workplace and see what can be done to prepare for the working life of the future.

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  • artificial intelligence
  • automation
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  • robotics
  • robots
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  • Lord Timothy Clement - Jones

    Lord Timothy Clement - Jones

    APGG AI

    Lord Clement-Jones is a Consultant of DLA Piper and Co-Chairman of the Parliamentary Group on Artificial Intelligence. Previous positions with DLA Piper have included London Managing Partner, Head of UK Government Affairs, Chairman of its China and Middle East Desks, International Business Relations Partner and Co-Chairman of Global Government Relations.He is also Chair of Ombudsman Services Limited, the not-for-profit, independent ombudsman service that provides dispute resolution for the communications, energy, property and copyright licensing industries.He was made CBE for political services in 1988 and a life peer in 1998. He has served as Liberal Democrat Health Spokesman and Liberal Democrat Spokesman on Culture, Media and Sport, in the House of Lords. He serves as Chairman of the Council of Queen Mary University London and President of Ambitious About Autism (formerly Treehouse), an autism education charity and school.
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