Will artificial intelligence take work away from politicians too?
Work has always been central in economic science and in the third millennium, with robots and artificial intelligence that progress every day at speeds considered improbable until a few years ago, the topic is even more relevant.
The recent annual convention of YEPP - Youth of the European People's Party, an organization that represents the youth movements of 58 center-right parties in 39 European countries, got an opportunity to discuss about the future of jobs.
The world population is growing at exponential levels and most of the studies foresee that during this fourth industrial revolution more jobs will be lost than the ones created. This makes it clear that the problem is very serious.
In 2000 there were 6.1 billion people, in 2017 the number grew to 7.5 billion and the United Nations estimates that global population will top out at 8.5 billion in 2030. In 2050, when today's students will still be far from the retirement age, the forecast is 9.7 billion people.
However, the problem is not new. Actually, mass unemployment has been a threat since the nineteenth century, during the previous industrial revolutions (steam, elect