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  • Will self-learning robots replace paid labour?

    Will self-learning robots replace paid labour?

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    Jouke
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    Introduction The fear of unemployment due to automation is nothing new. In the 19th century, protesters destroyed textile industry machines (Thompson, 1977). Today, we are regularly warned about unemployment due to automation (Casper, 2016; Dijkstra, 2019). In the 1960s, President Lyndon B. Johnson set up a commission to investigate the supposed danger of automation (Autor,…