In my book, Silicon Collar and in several blogs I have critiqued the 2013 study by two Oxford researchers which reached this alarmist conclusion about the impact of modern day machines on jobs: “According to our estimates, about 47% of total U.S. employment is at risk.”
I found several flaws in their study. With such a scary conclusion, it was irresponsible for them to not even lay out a timeline. They also did not appear to do a reality check for the job categories they analyzed. They calculated a high 0.79 “susceptibility to computerisation factor” (with 1.0 being the highest) […]
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