Automation and Technological Unemployment: Why Policymakers Need to Act Now

Automation and Technological Unemployment: Why Policymakers Need to Act Now

In 2013, Frey and Osborne published The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?, in which they explored the question of how many jobs were at risk of being computerised.

By combining their analysis of current machine learning technologies and US Labour Bureau data on 702 different occupations – breaking down occupations into a list of tasks involved – the authors were able to figure out the proportion of jobs in the US economy , as of 2010, which were in danger of being automated. They reported that ‘47 percent of total US employment is in the high […]

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