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Mr Cross


Monday 24 April 2017

Will robots take your job?

A study by Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) has concluded that robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) could affect almost a third of UK jobs by the 2030s. However, the report also said that automation could create more wealth and additional jobs elsewhere in the economy. The study estimated that 30% of existing UK jobs were potentially at a high risk of automation, compared with 38% in the US, 35% in Germany and 21% in Japan. John Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, said that "more manual, routine jobs" which "can effectively be programmed" were the most at risk, whereas, "jobs where you've got more of a human touch, like health and education," would be safer ... You can already see on the railways that all these strikes are not unrelated to the move towards driverless trains”. The report said that with the UK at near record-low levels of unemployment, outsourcing more repetitive tasks to robots could free up people to do more valuable work. 

SECTOR MOST AFFECTED
  • Transportation and storage - 56% of jobs at high risk from automation
  • Manufacturing - 46%
  • Wholesale and retail trade - 44%
  • Administrative and support services - 37%
  • Financial and insurance - 32%
  • Professional, scientific and technical - 26%
  • Construction - 24%
  • Arts and entertainment - 22%
  • Agriculture, forestry and fishing - 19%
  • Human health and social work - 17%
  • Education - 9%