On the effects and challenges of automation and digitization. Part II, some consequences of digitization and the problems that come with
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digital revolution, automation, industrial revolution, industry 4.0, labour employment and work organizationAbstract
In the first part of this contribution, an update of the works that have studied the effects that automation and digitization are having on employment have been offered. This second part is intended to draw attention to certain problematic consequences, in the present and in the future, to which digitization gives rise, in particular Artificial Intelligence, in a variety of fields: the effects on productivity; on a growing inequality; the emergence of digital divides; the environmental costs of automation and digitalization; the impact on tax systems; and the dangers and risks, both in the private and the public sector, of the huge amount of personal data collected and its use, filling a gap in the literature by offering a broader and more integrated perspective on the subject.
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