Opinion: The Rise of the Robots Just Cannot Be Stopped

(TNS) — Automation of the labor force was feared for a long time.

In 2017, a website sprung up to answer a question long on the minds of many: Will robots take my job? The creators based it on Bureau of Labor Statistics data and a 2013 research paper from Oxford University about "the susceptibility of jobs to computerization." Things have moved quickly since; even the term "computerization" now sounds desperately out of date.

If you plug "journalist" into the site’s search bar, for example, the site reveals an "automation risk score" of 9 percent. Nurse practitioner gets the same score […]

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