As robots and smart computers spread like wildfire, experts drop a bombshell: they might swipe all our jobs way earlier than anyone thought.
More than 2,700 smarty pants were quizzed about jobs and the growing robot takeover, making it the biggest quiz of its kind. The big reveal? There’s a fifty-fifty chance that machines will snatch all our gigs within the next hundred years.
When asked how soon robots could outshine humans in any job, the eggheads said by 2116 – nearly half a century earlier than they figured last year. Even big shots like Goldman Sachs think a whopping 300 million jobs are already on thin ice as robots get smarter faster.
Some big brains from Oxford University, the US, and Germany cooked up the “2023 Expert Survey on Progress in AI.” It showed that scientists can’t agree on how fast robots are getting smarter and what it means for our future. All the quiz takers were “researchers who had published in top-tier artificial intelligence (AI) venues.”
They asked 2,778 brainiacs at six big robot parties in October 2023. Turns out, robots are getting cleverer way faster than expected – which split the crowd. They showed off a list of tasks, from folding laundry to writing hits like Taylor Swift, and asked when robots would be better and cheaper.
The big brains said most tasks could be robot-made in a decade, but tricky stuff like fixing your home’s wiring would take longer. But here’s the kicker: by 2116, robots might ace every job from trash pickup to surgery.
But hold your horses, it’s not all doom and gloom. The World Economic Forum says robots might create 12 million new jobs soon. Over half of the quiz takers think robots will be a good thing for us, but some worry about the bad stuff.
From robots taking over to spreading lies and faking videos, there’s a laundry list of worries. And when it comes to how fast robots are going, the quiz takers can’t agree.
About 35 percent want robots to slow down or speed up, while 27 percent think they’re just fine. Most folks are leaning toward making robots smarter quicker. The big deal about this quiz? These are the folks who make robots smarter and then warn us about the trouble they might cause.

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