This report by the Pew Research Center, analysing data of more than 9,600 people across 10 countries, reveals that in all advanced and emerging economies polled, large majorities say that in the next 50 years robots and computers will probably or definitely do much of the work currently done by humans. And most believe that increasing automation will have negative consequences for jobs, with large majorities saying that ordinary people will have a hard time finding jobs as a result of automation. Along with concern about negative consequences, less than half the publics surveyed believe that robots and computers doing much of the work currently done by humans would lead to new, better-paying jobs, and in most nations, this pessimism is linked to views about the current state of the economy.
