AI robotics will not be replacing these researchers. They'll be replacing.... Actually, I should mention that this is still an open question, but they'll probably be replacing people in the middle and lower end of the skills distribution, not the researchers. As a matter of fact, it may well be that we will require even more researchers to advance the AI in robotics, especially as they become more and more prevalent and more useful in our economy.
These things are important to do, because this is how Canada is going to continue to improve productivity and improve wages for Canadians' standard of living, but it is going to have distributive impacts. Some Canadians are going to benefit. Others are going to lose out. It's also important to make sure we have a generous social safety net and we consider the distributional impacts.