Worrying about robots stealing our jobs? How silly | Simon Jenkins

The digital age will free us up not only for leisure activities but also to take on caring roles that can only be filled by humans

So we are doomed. Robots will steal our jobs. Algorithms will capture our children. Artificial intelligence will corrupt our free will. We are to be slaves to machines.

The Bank of England economist Andy Haldane warns today that “large swathes” of current labour will disappear as AI takes over. For a man who lives and breathes statistics, large swathes is a poor per...