Oxford University

Since AI became a topic of considerable study in the 1960s, it has suffered from a multitude of false hopes. The big breakthrough was always just around the corner and AI would inevitably transform society. Numerous papers predicting the demise of work as we know it have been published. Led by the notorious work of Oxford University’s Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, these papers typically highlight the huge number of jobs that will be lost by automation, but have a number of logical fallacies, whether it’s the lump of…