Will the machines have our skin?


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In “A world without work”, Daniel Susskind denounces the perverse effects of technological progress, the consequences of which go beyond the economic framework and threaten society.





By Leonardo Orlando

For Daniel Susskind, it is not so much robots, a source of progress, as their growing place in the world of work that we must fear.
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DThe four-legged robots decorating a Christmas tree may make some people smile, but others will be terrified. Because if these creations of the Boston Dynamics company are technological marvels, they also stir up a fear that has accompanied us since the dawn of the industrial revolution: the fear of being replaced by machines, or even the terror of seeing these machines free from human control. However, we may be mistaken about the object of our fears. No need, in fact, for a rebellious artificial intelligence (AI) to make us obsolete, it is enough for these machines to occupy a growing place in the world of work, for a good part of humanity to be ejected.

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