47% of Current US Jobs Could Become Automated In The Next 20 Years
That’s according to the paper “The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation?”. They surmise that it’s plausible in the next 20 years that many jobs could become automated. Low skill skill jobs will be the first to go:
Our model predicts that most workers in transportation and logistics occupations, together with the bulk of office and administrative support workers, and labour in production occupations, are at risk. These findings are consistent with recent technological developments documented in the literature. More surprisingly, we find that a substantial share of employment in service occupations, where most US job growth has occurred over the past decades (Autor and Dorn, 2013), are highly susceptible to computerisation.
Skynet isn’t going to drop bombs on us, they’re going to just take most of the work in the world and starve everyone else out.
Read more at slate.com
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