Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

Manufacturing Net ^ | March 15, 2016 | Katie Mohr, associate editor

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A recent study by the Oxford Martin School and Citi, with OECD data from the World Bank, found that an average of 57 percent of workers around the world are at risk of being replaced by automation.

The study's authors do recognize, however, that not all of these jobs will be automated. They explain that "a job is considered to be 'exposed to automation' or 'automatable' if the tasks it entails allows the work to be performed by a computer, even if a job is not actually automated."

The jobs in question are mainly low-skilled positions, including jobs in transportation and logistics, office support and manufacturing.

Forty-seven percent of U.S. workers face a risk of automation. Not all cities share equal risk, however. Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation, followed closely by Las Vegas and Greensboro, Alabama. For cities with the lowest risk, Boston and Washington D.C. tie with 38.4 percent.

"Notably, the cities with the highest share of their workforce exposed to automation (with the exception of Grand Rapids [at 47.9 percent]), do not include any Rust Belt manufacturing cities, such as Buffalo, Cleveland and Detroit," the study authors write....

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The big problem then was horse manure.

Oh noes!!

That is still by far the major waste product export from DC!

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Yup. I see robots sneaking up on me every day.

Be sure you pay your robot insurance premiums!

http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340