Oxford expert says 47 pct of U.S. jobs can be automated

Oxford expert says 47 pct of U.S. jobs can be automated

By Choi Kyong-ae

SEOUL, Oct. 19 (Yonhap) — Nearly 50 percent of jobs in the United States can be automated with the emergence of the fourth industrial revolution, an Oxford University professor said Thursday.

In a seminar held in Seoul hosted by the Institute for Global Economics (IGE), Carl Benedikt Frey, co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Technology & Employment, said that while many jobs can be taken over by machines, there should be enough jobs for people."I believe that as long as there are things that we can’t automate, there will be enough jobs to go around. Forty-seven percent […]

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