technological unemployment

American  

noun

1. unemployment caused by technological changes or new methods of production in an industry or business.

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technological unemployment Cultural  

1. Unemployment caused by the displacement of workers by machines.

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Etymology

Origin of technological unemployment

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

In a society actively debating technological unemployment and legislative solutions to the issue, these robots smoked cigarettes and told jokes like human beings while showing how workers would soon control machines rather than becoming slaves to their pace.

From Slate

Susskind’s predictions will likely make his book catnip to supporters of the presidential candidate Andrew Yang, whose campaign focuses on solutions to technological unemployment.

From New York Times

“Today’s inequalities are the birth pangs of tomorrow’s technological unemployment,” Susskind writes, and he has a point.

From New York Times

But centuries of predictions that machines would put humans out of work for good — a scenario that economists call “technological unemployment” — have always turned out to be wrong.

From New York Times

The former entrepreneur addresses voters in an engagingly natural style about challenges that others ignore: specifically, an impending new industrial revolution, led by artificial intelligence, that may bring vast technological unemployment.

From Washington Post