The fourth industrial revolution (4IR) comes with technologies that have the potential to drastically change the way of work. The introduction of 4IR technologies like Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics decrease the labour-intensive need of certain industries thereby boosting productivity while cutting labour costs. While one of the obvious benefits of 4IR is the creation of skill intensive industries, this paper seeks to highlight the consequences of these technologies on the semi-skilled to unskilled segments of the labour market in South Africa and particularly in the Eastern Cape.
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