This TED Talk features innovation architect David Lee, recorded live at TED at UPS 2017.

So there's a lot of valid concern these days that our technology is getting so smart that we put ourselves on a path to a jobless future.

And I think the example of the self-driving car is actually the easiest one to see.

So these are going to be fantastic for all kinds of different reasons.

But did you know that driver is actually the most common job in 29 of the 50 U.S. states?

What's going to happen to these jobs when we're no longer driving our cars,

or cooking our food, or even diagnosing our own diseases.

Well, a recent study from forest to research

goes so far to predict that 25 million jobs

might disappear over the next 10 years.

To put that in perspective,

that's three times as many jobs lost in the aftermath of the financial crisis.

And it's not just blue-collar jobs that are at risk.

On Wall Street and across Silicon Valley,

we are seeing tremendous gains in the quality of analysis and decision-making

because of machine learning.

So even the smartest, highest-paid people will be affected by this change.

What's clear is that no matter what your job is, at least some, if not all of your work,

is going to be done by a robot or software in the next few years.

And that's exactly why people like Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates are talking about the

need for government-funded minimum income levels. But if our politicians can't agree on things like health care

or even school lunches,

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