Claim: The governor of the Bank of England has said that 15 million jobs in the UK could be stolen by robots.
Fact-check: Robots and the future of your job - Full Fact
Verdict: that's one way of putting it. mark carney quoted an estimate that 15 million jobs in the uk could be automated over the next few decades. in the past, new technology has created new types of work and hasn't caused mass unemployment in the long run.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Richard Braham
Date published: 2016-12-12T00:00:00