What happens to people in the age of AI?

Half of all jobs in Canada will be automated or significantly changed due to automation in the next decade, and though concentrated in certain areas, no sector will be immune.

Canada’s Innovation Agenda is led by Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains. The government is right to support AI research and development, writes Amita Kuttner, but the field comes with considerable risks. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY AMITA KUTTNER

February 13, 2019

Artificial intelligence (AI) and related emerging technologies will drastically change our society over the next couple of decades. Not only will automated systems soon take over jobs such as truck driving and manufacturing, they will eventually disrupt employment everywhere else, too. The current ...

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