The past few months have seen a deluge of dire warnings about the coming robotic apocalypse, whereby vast swathes of jobs will be automated and humanity will be sidelined by our new robotic overlords.
Most of these dire predictions have their basis in three prominent studies. The first, and arguably most well known, was published by Oxford University’s Michael Osborne and Carl Benedikt Frey back in 2013. In it, they argue that 47% of jobs will be automated within 20 years.
The second was published by the McKinsey Global Institute, and they predicted that 45% of jobs will be automated, whilst […]
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