Software and automation threaten to make 15% of jobs obsolete within a decade. In some industries, it’s likely to be higher.
But for now, robots may actually be helping workers, making it easier to succeed at their jobs, or even move on to more productive, higher-skill work that pays more and offers better job security.
Julie Sweet, CEO of Accenture North America, tells Yahoo Finance in the video above that “artificial intelligence”—computers that can learn like humans and do some intellectual work—has allowed her firm to eliminate lower-skill jobs and train those workers for other jobs harder to fill.“We automated almost […]
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