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Could artificial intelligence create an unemployment crisis?

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Advances in artificial intelligence and robotics will have significant implications for evolving economic systems.

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          cover image Communications of the ACM
          Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 7
          July 2013
          99 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/2483852
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