The widening, deepening effects of automation on the workforce

The widening, deepening effects of automation on the workforce

The expected large-scale increase in the use of robots has prompted discussion about which jobs will become obsolete as society becomes more automated.

It’s an issue that dates back long before computers were invented but that is leaking into ever more fields as machines become more capable.

Carl Frey and Michael Osborne, in a February 2013 article, “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerization,” studied 702 industries and concluded that over the next two decades, 47 percent of U.S. workers’ jobs were at risk of automation.Each additional robot put to work in the U.S. economy reduces employment by […]

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