With the increased growth and development in technology, the vice president of the Federal republic of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo expresses concern at the closing ceremony of the 50th anniversarycelebrations and annual conference of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) in Abuja on Friday, November 16. He stated that the growth and development of of robots and artificial intelligence poses a great threat to human survival. According to him, no sensible decision of any economy can me made without putting the people into consideration. He said in the next few years, will become among the contenders of having the largest population of youths in the world.
Osinbajo said;“But more disturbing is the growing apprehension of redundancy of many who today work in the millions of jobs that may be unnecessary as robots and artificial intelligence perform the same functions far more efficiently and even cheaper. What will retraining this possibly redundant workforce entail? What happens to pensions of retired humans when the majority of current workers are robots who earn nothing? How about the growing concerns about work life balance? What sort of work environment makes for the most productive worker? ”Is it the formal workspace which we are used to or something less constraining more flexible as we are seeing in the new technology companies.’’ 
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