A robot delivers a pizza at Robotazia restaurant as the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) outbreak continues in Milton Keynes, Britain. — Reuters
The UK risks losing jobs to the Covid crisis that could be resilient to automation while giving a short-term boost to sectors that have no long-term future.
Jobs in supermarkets, residential care and couriering have all been lifted by the crisis. Yet they face a high risk of replacement by new technology in future, according to a report by the Royal Society for Arts published Monday. That disruption is also being accelerated by the pandemic, it said.
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