Estimated read time: Less than a minute
This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The impact that industrial robots may have on jobs in the future is being discussed at a University of South Carolina Business School conference.
Author Martin Ford is discussing his new book, "Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future," at Thursday's conference in Columbia.
Other speakers include Jay Bryson, a global economist for Wells Fargo Securities in Charlotte, North Carolina, and Rick Kaglic, a senior regional economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Virginia.
The conference will also include remarks from Darla Moore School Dean Peter Brews, who plans to discuss how business education must adjust to a future dominated by technology and automated work.
Copyright © The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
