Enjoy this sight experience while you can. Before long, robots will also be reading the news that they, themselves, produce.
In fact, give it 10 or 20 years, and half of all jobs in the U.S. will be held by machines. The Oxford study does not provide details on other ripples through the financial and social strata. This leaves a lot of room for paranoid imagination, also known as alternately laughing at improbabilities and scaring the bejesus out of yourself.
When it comes to robot workers, perhaps the adage is right: It's not if you are paranoid, but if you are paranoid enough. This is not your grandfather's replacement-by-robots fear, not even its reality, as it has already worked out in the world. Pick your metaphor: This time it's serious as a heart attack, this program's on steroids, it's a whole new level of...
As always: When someone else's job is filled by a robot, it's cost-efficient progress. When it's your job that goes under, via the cold, articulated hand of robotics, it's an unfair radicalization of the global economy. Both are probably correct. Neither treat flesh-based units very well.
Thinking of buying some penny stocks in a robotic future world? Step this way...
For example, there's never any mention of Android Rights. Or Automaton Unemployment Compensation. Or Food Stamps. Or even if such assistance will be paid in wafer-thin silicon wafers and, um, rare-earth-chip cookies. Although, from first glance, such steps might well compute just fine, thank you.