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8 - The End of Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2020

Serge Abiteboul
Affiliation:
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt
Gilles Dowek
Affiliation:
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
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In using the example of the professions of driver and translator, we implicitly assumed that drivers and translators would always exist. However, it is also possible that these professions may one day disappear if, at some point, algorithms for driving a car or translating a text perform as well as, or even better, than a human. This is also true for many other professions. Of course, this transition also paves the way for new professions to design, implement, and accompany all of these algorithms, but in the age of algorithms, much less work may be required to provide the same goods or services as before.

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  • The End of Work
  • Serge Abiteboul, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, Gilles Dowek
  • Book: The Age of Algorithms
  • Online publication: 17 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614139.008
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  • The End of Work
  • Serge Abiteboul, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, Gilles Dowek
  • Book: The Age of Algorithms
  • Online publication: 17 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614139.008
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  • The End of Work
  • Serge Abiteboul, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA), Rocquencourt, Gilles Dowek
  • Book: The Age of Algorithms
  • Online publication: 17 March 2020
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108614139.008
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