Chores such as shopping likely to have most automation, while caring for young or old least likely to be affected, says report
A revolution in artificial intelligence could slash the amount of time people spend on household chores and caring, with robots able to perform about 39% of domestic tasks within a decade, according to experts.
But greater automation could result in a “wholesale onslaught on privacy”, warned one of the report’s authors. Society needed to be alive to the issues raised by homes full of smart automation, she said, adding: “I don’t think that we as a society are prepared to manage that wholesale onslaught on privacy.”
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