
Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are taken over by other workers.
But when their own jobs are at stake, people would rather prefer to be replaced by robots than by another employee.
Over the coming decades, millions of jobs will be threatened by robotics and artificial intelligence.
Despite intensive academic debate on these developments, there has been little study on how workers react to being replaced through technology.
Their findings have now been published in the renowned journal Nature Human Behaviour.
Human replacements pose greater threat to feeling of self-worth