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30% of UK jobs at risk of automation by 2030

Over 30% of UK jobs are at risk of becoming automated within the next 15 years thanks to developments in artificial intelligence, at least according to a recent report by PwC .

More than 10 million jobs are at "high risk" of being replaced with robots, although some sectors such as transportation and manufacturing would be worst hit by the emerging technology.

The report found that up to 56% of transportation and storage jobs could disappear, while 46% of manufacturing and 44% of retail roles could be soon carried out by AI led software or robots, sectors involving high proportions of […]

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Why American jobs have a higher risk of automation than jobs in Germany, the UK, and Japan

You’ve been warned before—robots are coming for your job. The speed of technological advancement, particularly in smart automation, has sprung countless economic studies and political warnings about how many people are likely to lose their jobs to this rise of the machines. But it’s not an easy number to peg down; estimates range from 5% to 50%.

The latest predictions from PricewaterhouseCoopers (pdf) survey the damage for specific countries. Analysts at the consulting firm said that by the early 2030s, 38% of US jobs are at a high risk of automation, more than in Germany, the UK, and Japan.

PwC revisited […]

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“Utterly Shocking”: Silicon Valley Slams White House for Ignoring A.I. Threat

By Ronald Wittek/Pool/Getty Images. If there’s one thing that labor economists and leaders in Silicon Valley generally seem to agree on, it’s that increasingly sophisticated technology is coming to replace American jobs. According to a new report from PricewaterhouseCoopers, 38 percent of U.S. jobs are at high risk of being replaced by automation in the next 15 years, compared with 30 percent of jobs in the U.K. and 21 percent of in Japan. The United States, like the United Kingdom, is dominated by service jobs in sectors like manufacturing, transportation, finance, and food service, and U.S. jobs are particularly […]

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Steve Mnuchin Doesn’t Think A.I. Is an Immediate Threat to Jobs. That’s Insane.

Photo by THOMAS KIENZLE/AFP/Getty Images Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is a sharp guy. He’s a (legacy) alumnus of Yale and Goldman Sachs, did well on Wall Street, and was a successful movie producer and bank investor. He’s good at, and willing to, put other people’s money at risk alongside some of his own. While he isn’t the least qualified person to hold the post of treasury secretary in 2017, he’s far from the best qualified. For in his 54 years on this planet, he hasn’t expressed or displayed much interest in economic policy, or […]

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2.25m retail jobs at risk of being replaced by robots by 2030

Retail is among the sectors identified as facing the biggest risk of jobs being automated – or replaced by robots – in the next 15 years, according to a new study.

Up to 2.25 million jobs in retail and wholesale – the industry that employs the most people in the UK – could change rather than disappear over the next decade as robots are increasingly used, a PwC report says.

Along with retail, jobs in transportation, storage and manufacturing are also likely to be automated, while education, health and social work face the lowest risks.In total, around 10 million jobs could […]

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Robots Could ‘Steal Millions’ Of UK Jobs By Early 2030

However, AIs could deliver a big boost in productivity and yield new jobs

Robots may snatch 30 percent of human jobs in the UK by the early 2030s, according to forecasting by PwC.

As the development of artificial intelligence (AI) and smart technology , PwC predicts that many more manual labour jobs will be shifted from human workers to robots and automated systems .However, it is not all doom and gloom for around a third of the Britain’s workforce; PwC noted that the rise of the machine will also open up new jobs for humans, such as maintaining the robots. Job […]

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30% of UK jobs could be affected by automation

Up to around 30% of existing UK jobs could face automation over the next 15 years, but new AI-related technologies will also boost productivity and generate additional jobs elsewhere in the economy, according to new analysis by PwC in its latest UK Economic Outlook report. This involves looking in detail at the task composition of jobs in different industry sectors and occupations, using machine learning techniques to model the potential impact of AI in the future based on OECD data.

The study estimates that the UK (30%) has a lower proportion of existing jobs at potential high risk of automation […]

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Around 10 million workers are at risk of seeing their jobs taken over by robots over the next 15 years, according to a new report.

Robots and new technology could remove some of the monotony from jobs, according to new research Around 10 million workers are at risk of seeing their jobs taken over by robots over the next 15 years, according to a new report.

But the research from PwC said new artificial intelligence (AI) related technologies would also boost productivity and generate additional jobs elsewhere in the economy.

The report said up to around 30% of existing UK jobs were susceptible to automation by the 2030s.Sectors such as transport and manufacturing were at the biggest risk with half of jobs at "potential high risk" […]

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Millions of UK workers at risk of being replaced by robots, study says

More than 10 million UK workers are at high risk of being replaced by robots within 15 years as the automation of routine tasks gathers pace in a new machine age.

A report by the consultancy firm PwC found that 30% of jobs in Britain were potentially under threat from breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI). In some sectors half the jobs could go.

The report predicted that automation would boost productivity and create fresh job opportunities, but it said action was needed to prevent the widening of inequality that would result from robots increasingly being used for low-skill tasks.PwC said 2.25 […]

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Robots will take a third of British jobs by 2030, report says

10 ways humans are still superior to robots View Story <!–td {border: 1px solid #ccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}–>A third of existing British jobs are at risk of being taken over by robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) within 15 years, a report reveals.

As many as 30pc of existing roles in the UK could be automated by 2030 with the most at risk industries being waste management, transportation and manufacturing, according to an analysis by PwC. However, the report stressed that automation won’t result in rocketing unemployment.

"The UK employment rate is at its highest level now since comparable records began in 1971, despite […]

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