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The emergence of artificial intelligence technologies presents itself as one of the most fundamental technological-economic revolutions in recent history. The implications of their emergence bear the utmost significance for the labor market where ‘smart’ machines have the potential to rapidly displace a material share of work tasks currently performed by humans. Such a situation will require a prudent short-term and long-term governmental response. Moreover, a new type of cooperation between the state and the private enterprises will be needed to successfully overcome the societal and economic challenges posed by work task automation by artificial intelligence technologies.
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Although an excellent overview of this topic, it is slightly dated.
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Beard (2015) explains that live-right, ‘otium’ referred to a cliché of Roman moralizing that a true gentleman was to be supported by the profits of his estates, not by wage labor, which was inherently dishonorable. Latin vocabulary captured the idea that ‘otium’ was the desired state of humanity was (a state of ‘leisure’ or a state of being in control of one’s own time) and it stood in contrast to ‘negotium’, which referred to ‘business’ of any kind.
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Drev, M. (2019). Work Task Automation and Artificial Intelligence: Implications for the Role of Government. In: Kovač, I. (eds) At His Crossroad. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78331-4_4
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