SBP editorial: Artificial intelligence threat to jobs is real

History is littered with wide-eyed predictions about how technology will transform both our lives and the workplace that never deliver on their initial promise.

The graveyard of ideas is constantly expanding to accommodate new arrivals. Only a few years ago, Google Glass was set to transform how we interacted with each other and the visual world, but by 2015 the product had been shelved. Go back further, to the 1980s, and it was ...