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35% of UK jobs are at risk of being automated over the next two decades According to Oxford University, in the years ahead, millions of jobs in sectors such as accounting and auditing will be replaced with machines that can so the same tasks much more cheaply and effectively than human workers - without requiring salaries, holidays or sick pay - while administrators, paralegals and bank clerks will also be hit hard. We need to help people develop skills that machines are still relatively bad at, such as creativity, empathy and problem-solving . When it comes to the real-life race against the machine, we have no time to lose. Either we can rise to the challenge of automation, and radically overhaul our education, training and skills system, or wage a losing battle trying to compete. #workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #automation #jobs #disruptivetechnology #fourthindustrialrevolution http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/11858391/The-new-white-collar-fear-will-robots-take-your-job....

Robots could soon become advanced enough to make their own decisions Robots will be able to make some decisions on their own—like where to bring a load of car parts—whether or not they will result in benefits for workers will be up to the humans deciding how they'll be used. While automation and robotics certainly have the potential to save workers from lives of toil and misery—if they are indeed miserable—they also hold the possibility to deepen current inequalities, depending on whose hands they're in. In most cases, repositioning labour doesn't mean that everyone gets to keep their jobs. Ultimately when you redeploy people from one job to another, there's a cascading effect that does eliminate jobs unless they're bringing in more work. #workautomation #futureofwork #robotics #artificialintelligence #automation #jobs #robotprocessautomation #disruptivetechnology https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/3dk4m8/robot-workers-will-only-be-as-ethical-as-their-master...

Safe jobs in 21st century are among three bottlenecks to automation: creativity, social intelligence, and the ability to interact with complex objects and environments The digital age is set to cause more upheaval than previous technological revolutions because change is happening faster than ever before and is fundamentally altering the way we live and work. Technology is now enabling not just the automation of repetitive but also cognitive tasks involving subtle and non-routine judgment. Through robotics, big data, the digitisation of industries and the Internet of Things the nature of occupations and whole industries is changing and also the dynamics of economic growth. We should equip workers to engage with developing technologies, so they're able to benefit from them, and focus on those bottlenecks still faced by automation. Giving people those skills could help them find jobs that aren't readily replaceable by technology, but also help them to develop new technologies and...