>The gloomy narrative, which says that an invasion of job-killing robots is just around the corner, has for decades had an extraordinary hold on the popular ima

>The gloomy narrative, which says that an invasion of job-killing robots is just around the corner, has for decades had an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination. Thanks to the likes of the Economist. Their story on how copilot will make programmers redundant exemplified the way they framed automation - as an answer to their executive readership's prayers - a deus ex machina that will let them fire half of their employees while maintaining their margins. To be fair, there is a litany of trashy economics studies thumping the same drum. E.g. there was a famous one from Ball State U that mathematically conflated automation and outsourcing to prove that the robots already took over and one from Harvard, I think, that measured job automatability through surveys about how "creative" workers thought their jobs were.