Expert: AI could replace 80pc of human jobs 'in next few years'

Artificial Intelligence

An engineer supervising an automated AI robot arms used to control operations in a factory.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) could replace 80 percent of human jobs in the coming years -- but that's a good thing, says a US-Brazilian researcher Ben Goertzel, a leading AI guru.

Mathematician, cognitive scientist and famed robot-creator, the 56-year-old is founder and chief executive of SingularityNET, a research group he launched to create "Artificial General Intelligence" (AGI), an AI with human cognitive abilities.