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THE ERA OF AUTOMATION The fear of this unprecedented digital revolution has coined the term "Automation Anxiety." A White House study in 2010 suggested workers who earn under $20 an hour will face an eighty-three percent chance of job loss due to automation, while the population earning up to $40 an hour is at thirty-one percent risk. This study is already outdated. Most research conducted in this area yields toward the In October of last year, Kavi Guppta, technology & workforce writer, published an article in Forbes magazine titled "Will Labor Unions Survive in the Era of Automation?" in which he interviewed Ilaria Armaroli, Ph.D. labor relations advisor at nonprofi t think tank ADAPT. The article focuses on labor displacement due to machine learning and the mass computerization of the American workforce. The scope of this problem is widely researched, but it has been largely ignored by mainstream media, perhaps due to the lack of strategy development to navigate our economy, which will encounter mass unemployment within this century. displacement of low-skilled manufacturing work, but within this decade, machine learning has made signifi cant strides in the creative and cognitive realms that were until now, deemed as uniquely human. Programmers now use deep-learning algorithms to prompt bots to teach themselves about their respective task. For example, a team at MIT released an artifi cial intelligence program in 2016 called the Nightmare Machine. It is a bot that has taught itself to generate imagery humans The fear of this unprecedented digital revolution has our economy, which will encounter mass unemployment within this century. displacement of low-skilled manufacturing work, but General Motors installed a Unimate robot arm at its Trenton, New Jersey, factory, changing assembly-line work forever. Young Workers Report