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I, For One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords

If you want to be employed in the future, stay away from easy-to-do jobs that computers can do, and instead gain skills which “complement software applications,” say researchers at England’s University of Oxford. Some of the jobs that Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne say are highly likely to soon be done by computers include accountants, budget analysts, drivers, insurance adjustors, real estate brokers and appraisers, shipping clerks, technical writers, telemarketers, retail clerks, and anything else that relies on “tasks following well-defined procedures that can easily be performed by sophisticated algorithms.” The predictions were made in Frey and Osborne’s paper, “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?” (RC/USA Today) ...Next on the chopping block: scholarly journal authors.
Original Publication Date: 13 April 2014
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