The world will ‘sink into despair’ as robots take millions of jobs, expert warns

In the very near future, a robot is going to take your job – and the end result will be a dystopia where people are left without anything to fill their meaningless lives, an expert has warned.

Dr Subhash Kak, a computing expert at Oklahoma University says that the first signs are already here, in the form of America’s heroin crisis and extremist groups such as Isis.

It will start with jobs such as truck drivers – who’ll be replaced by self-driving trucks – and move on to other areas of the workplace, researchers have warned.

Dr Kak told the Daily Star, ‘There will be massive unemployment. People want to be useful and work provides meaning, and so the world will sink into despair.’

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‘Policy makers have begun to speak of a minimum guaranteed income with everyone provided food, shelter, and a smart phone, and that will not address the heart of the problem.

‘In my view, the current opioid and drug epidemic in the US is a manifestation of this despair.

‘Likewise, phenomena such as ISIS are a response to the meaninglessness that people find in a world devoted only to the cult of the body,’

Some reports claim that up to 800 million people could be out of work by 2030, with their jobs replaced permanently by machines.