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FAST FOOD CEO: Machines could 'run the world' by the mid- to late-2020s (YUM)

"...probably by the mid '20s to the late '20s, you'll start to see a dramatic change in sort of how machines sort of run the world," he told CNBC.

Humanoid robots work side by side with employees in the assembly line at a factory of Glory Ltd., a manufacturer of automatic change dispensers, in Kazo, north of Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015.

In an interview with CNBC's Sara Eisen on Tuesday, Greg Creed, the CEO of Yum Brands, the owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, spoke about how he sees technological innovation developing over the next decade or two, and how his industry has already seen changes.

"I'm not sure we're going to have, you know, robots replacing people soon. Though, to be fair, I was in Shanghai just recently at a new Pizza Hut concept store and I was greeted by a robot. And a robot actually greeted me at the door, took me to my table," he told CNBC. He added that he is impressed by artificial intelligence (AI) in general, and the IBM's Watson computer system, in particular.

"And so, I think it's the beginning of robotics, but I don't see it wholesaling — the wholesale sense changing people's jobs in the short-term. We're not going to be driving cars. We're not going to be — I mean, think about how Amazon is developing and how machines are now telling Amazon to deliver the goods," he continued. "I think one of the key questions is what are we as humans going to do in the next 10 or 20 years? What will be we doing as humans?"

Concerns about AI and jobs are so far way "it's not even on our radar screen... , Mnuchin said, according to Axios.

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ound that about 47% of total US employment is in the high risk category, which the team defined as jobs they expect could be automated "relatively soon, perhaps over the next decade or two."

They also included

High-skill jobs under the categories of "management, business, and financial," "healthcare practitioners and technical," and "computer, engineering, and science" saw lower likelihoods of automation, while "service," "sales and related," "transportation and material moving," and "office and administrative support" have higher probabilities.

One particularly notable detail is that many of the jobs that are highly susceptible to computerization are in the services sector, which has seen the most job growth over the past few decades as the US has transitioned from a manufacturing-based economy to a services-based one.

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