Will Your Job Be Done By A Machine? (Demo)

By Gary Reber Uncategorized May 31, 2015

On May 21, 2015, Quoctrung Bui writs on Planet Money:

Machines can do some surprising things. But what you really want to know is this: Will your job be around in the future?

We have the “definitive” guide.

Bookkeepers have a

97.6%

chance of being automated.

How do we know this? Some aspects of a job are easier to automate than others. It all depends on the tasks. Look at the orange bars to see how Bookkeepers compare with other professions…

Do you need to come up with clever solutions?

Are you required to personally help others?

Does your job require you to squeeze into small spaces?

Does your job require negotiation?

Notes

This is a selection of jobs from the paper. Some jobs were renamed for clarity. Researchers scored jobs on 9 possible traits. Included are the four traits they found to be most important.

Source: The Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs to Computerisation? Data provided by the authors.

Credit: Quoctrung Bui and Christopher Groskopf/NPR; Illustrations by Naftali Beder

What job is hardest for a robot to do? Mental health and substance abuse social workers (found under community and social services). This job has a 0.3 percent chance of being automated. That’s because it’s ranked high in cleverness, negotiation, and helping others. The job most likely to be done by a robot? Telemarketers. No surprise; it’s already happening.

The researchers admit that these estimates are rough and likely to be wrong. But consider this a snapshot of what some smart people think the future might look like. If it says your job will likely be replaced by a machine, you’ve been warned.

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/05/21/408234543/will-your-job-be-done-by-a-machine?utm_source=npr_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20150531&utm_campaign=mostemailed&utm_term=nprnews