最近牛津大学卡尔·佛雷和迈克尔·奥斯本以及麦肯锡全球研究院（MGI）所发布的另一项研究成果加深了人们的恐惧，这两项研究发现发达和发展中国家大量的就业机会在技术上均可通过自动化来完成。
Feeding these fears is a recent study by the University of Oxford’s Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, and another by the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), which find that large shares of employment in both developing and developed countries could technically be automated.