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\"RiseofTheReplicants-FTdotcomMarch2014\"<\/a><\/div>\n

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If Daniel Nadler is right, a generation of college graduates with well-paid positions as junior researchers and analysts in the banking industry should be worried about their jobs. Very worried.<\/p>\n

Mr Nadler\u2019s start-up, staffed with ex-Google engineers and backed partly by money from Google\u2019s venture capital arm, is trying to put them out of work.<\/p>\n

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The threat to jobs stretches beyond the white-collar world. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) also make possible more versatile robots capable of taking over many types of manual work. \u201cIt\u2019s going to decimate jobs at the low end,\u201d predicts Jerry Kaplan, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who teaches a class about AI at Stanford University. Like others working in the field, he says he is surprised by the speed at which the new technologies are moving out of the research labs.<\/p>\n

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From DSC:<\/span>
\n After reading<\/span> the above article<\/a> — and seeing presentations about these trends (example<\/a>) — I have some major questions to ask:<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n