Experts: Kokomo highly susceptible to automation, but not time to panic

Experts: Kokomo highly susceptible to automation, but not time to panic

Northwestern High School senior Joe Johns is one of 20 high school students from around central Indiana who spent 12 weeks at one of the Kokomo area’s Fiat Chrysler Automobiles plants learning about manufacturing. Tim Bath | Kokomo Tribune A national report has found that Kokomo is the second-most susceptible metro area in the U.S. to potential automation, with more than a third of the city’s jobs considered to be at high automation risk.

But while those statistics, published last month by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, a D.C.-based nonprofit organization, tell an alarming story at first glance, researchers say […]

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