Bill Gates on Automating Tests

OK, he wasn’t talking specifically about automating tests. But he talk about automating the jobs that can be automated and redirecting the human effort towards things “where human empathy and understanding are still very, very unique.”

His topic was taxing the output of robots and using those funds to train the displaced workers towards those new roles.

“So if you can take the labor that used to do the thing automation replaces, and financially and training-wise and fulfillment-wise have that person go off and do these other things, then you’re net ahead.”

Read the full article, and see the video here.