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Mark Carney warned the automation of jobs currently done by humans could trigger mass unemployment and wage stagnation.

That will create vast inequalities between workers who benefit from artificial intelligence and those whose careers are wiped out by it.

“If you substitute platforms for textile mills, machine learning for steam engines, Twitter for the telegraph, you have exactly the same dynamics as existed 150 years ago when Karl Marx was scribbling The Communist Manifesto,” he said.

Mr Carney told the Canada Growth Summit a new robot-led industrial revolution had already begun and would affect nearly all careers.

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Law firms already use artificial intelligence to comb through documents and read evidence - something traditionally done by junior lawyers.

Banks have computerised vast swathes of customer service departments resulting in job losses.

Taxi and lorry driving jobs will go as self-driving technology improves, he said.

The first industrial revolution saw a huge growth in production during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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But wages did not rise for decades as machines meant most new jobs created by technology were low-skilled.

Many experts believe political unrest sparked by the resulting inequalities led to the rise of left-and right-wing extremism across Europe.

To prevent it happening again Mr Carney suggested workers should train for jobs which require a higher emotional intelligence in sectors such as care and leisure.

City fund manager vice-chairman Edward Bonham Carter, 57, the brother of actress Helena, believes a `significant number of jobs' will be wiped out over the next 30 years.

“It's relatively easy to think of the jobs that might get removed and automated,” he said.

“It's starting to happen in the middle-class area, professional jobs.

“What's different from the previous industrial revolutions is that it's the professional classes that are now being threatened.

“Whereas before it was manual labour that could be repeated and mechanised, now quite a lot of the service jobs in theory could be replaced.

“So it's not just truck drivers.”

He said Britain needs to shake-up an education system which currently focuses on testing children's ability to retain information like robots.

“I think the key things are analytical skills, communications skills, skills that robots are probably going to be behind humans on - empathy, dealing with other humans,” he added.