Journalists, doctors and lawyers thought theywere immune to automation. The conclusions are disconcerting: robots could replace flesh-andblood workers in 47% of professions in the United States in just a few years’ time. These are the findings of a study conducted by two Oxford University researchers, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne.
Many categories are at risk, and not exactly those you might imagine, even including tailors, models, cattle farmers, watchmakers and taxi drivers (thanks to self-driving cars, like those being developed by Google). But the real revolution is the one set to take the intellectual world by storm.
Notaries, lawyers and doctors, who were considered untouchable until recently, are already having to ward off competition from new technology. In New Jersey, for example, an automated notary service for the State treasury is being developed, while American company Wevorce uses online technology to simplify divorce proceedings and lower the cost of breaking up with software that guides applicants in compiling required documents.
In the healthcare sector, X-ray technicians could prove less efficient than specially designed software; and simple computerised questionnaires could be all that’s needed to provide more reliable diagnoses than those given by traditional doctors. Vinod Khosla, co-founder of the IT giant Sun Microsystems, claims that within one generation 80% of doctors will be replaced by algorithms and machines.
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Journalists, doctors and lawyers thought theywere immune to automation. The conclusions are disconcerting: robots could replace flesh-andblood workers in 47% of professions in the United States in just a few years’ time. These are the findings of a study conducted by two Oxford University researchers, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne.
Many categories are at risk, and not exactly those you might imagine, even including tailors, models, cattle farmers, watchmakers and taxi drivers (thanks to self-driving cars, like those being developed by Google). But the real revolution is the one set to take the intellectual world by storm.
