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Stephen Hawking’s latest warning is stark. Robots and artificial intelligence (AI) have already played havoc with working class jobs in factories and heavy industry. Now they are set to do the same with middle class jobs, from legal work, through financial services to computer programming. Cue economic turmoil, unemployment, and
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