Experts fear artificial intelligence will steal HALF of all workers’ jobs within 20 years
Billions of people could end up on the scrapheap as new technology makes humans totally redundant
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE will have a devastating impact on working class families dependant on income from low-skill jobs in as little as ten years' time.
Robots will take almost half of US citizens’ jobs within the next two decades, the White House has warned.
Government officials are panicking as they try to come up with a way to soften the blow for millions of families who will lose their income to automation.
And in a crippling blow the lowest-paid, lowest-skilled and less educated workers' jobs are likely to go first, a chilling report published by the White House last week revealed.
It follows several British MPs' warning that the same will happen in the UK.
Drivers and cleaners are at significant risk and house-cleaning bots and driverless cars are set to take over, according to the US government.
Machines are just a lot more accurate than humans, it found.
While humans have a five percent error rate in a well known image recognition test, AI has developed from a 26 percent error rate in 2011 to a 3.5 percent rate in 2015.
And it's not just jobs that are threatened by robots - our sex lives are at risk too.
The law will bend to allow the first marriage to a robot before 2050, an expert has claimed.
It’s such a risk that officials have been tasked with improving unemployment insurance for those affected.
Despite this, the government is keen to keep rolling out automation and said that it will “invest and develop AI for its many benefits”.
At the cost of approximately 47 percent of jobs, it will pump money into accelerating artificial intelligence so that it can stay “on the cutting edge”.
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The report stated: “AI-driven changes in the job market in the United States will cause some workers to lose their jobs, even while creating new jobs elsewhere.
“The economic pain this causes will fall more heavily upon some than on others.
“Policymakers must consider what can be done to help those families and communities get back on their feet and assemble the tools they need to thrive in the transformed economy and share in its benefits.”
But it's not all bad news.
The US government said it will invest in educating youngsters to find jobs working alongside machines or super-smart computer programmes so that they can reap the benefit of the emerging technology in years to come.
And with increased productivity workers could find themselves making the same wage but working less hours.
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