Nearly Half Of US Jobs Could Be Replaced By Machines

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

[2ndDivisionVet]

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....

[Steely Tom]

Government will license and tax robots and give the proceeds to people who don’t work (after taking a nice thick slice for itself off the top).

Those people will enlarge the population of bored, disaffected and hopeless people. Eventually a leader will come along and mobilize this population into an army.

[Jim Robinson]

"Fresno, California, takes the top spot, with 53.8 percent exposed to automation,"

Yup. I see robots sneaking up on me every day. Luckily we drop-kicked the last of the RubioBots recently. But one or the other CruzBots or TrumpBots are going to get me.

[RobbyS]

Maybe half the present jobs. Wonder what the predictions were in the 1890s? Did they accurately imagine the labor market of 1925?

[Raycpa]

But the other 43% are not government jobs.

[Sirius Lee]

You could absolutely replace all politicians with an algorithm that will just raise taxes,curtail some random aspect of human activity, and spend more every year.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Wait ‘til the BernieBots get here. They’ve taken over that Reddit site. LOL

[2ndDivisionVet]

The big problem then was horse manure.

[rovenstinez]

Here in Mexico, at the NEW Honda Plant, some estimates are that 50% of the work is done by robots.

[bakeneko]

They already are.

They are called ‘millennials’.

[MasterGunner01]

First thing we do is automate all federal jobs out of existence and replace them with robots. At the same time, we eliminate paying the robots because they're not human. The robots do nothing except exchange meaningless pieces of paper with grandiose plans that no one reads or implements. The robots are programmed to leave the American public alone. Eliminating federal worker's pay and benefits would go a long way towards balancing the budget.

Congress should be the first to be automated followed by the judiciary and the executive branch. Next, we automate the Media. Robots could do the same thing as the talking heads and better to boot.

[poinq]

Nearly half of the US jobs could be replaced by machines

or you could say...

Nearly half of the US jobs have been replaced by foreigners.

[Secret Agent Man]

All idiot politicians can be completely replaced. We all,know what they say and do or dont do.

The entire media can be replaced, they just recycle the same old templates for liberal friends and conservative enemies.

[deport]

Maybe half the present jobs.

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Half by machines and the other half from south of the border
whether on physical site here or jobs shipped out......

[grey_whiskers]

For example Cruzbots could be replaced with artificial stupidity.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I always thought this book was prophetic.

[ldish]

there are no jobs left or worth replacing in the USA any longer!!!

[Laser_Ray]

My goodness, it’s been YEARS since I met anyone else who read that book let alone understood it...that and the film “Idiocracy” together were painfully accurate.

[DannyTN]

That’s why we need to bring jobs and processes back as soon as possible. We want to own the robots, control the processes and have any associated jobs that are left.

But I wouldn’t mind seeing Washington D.C. automated. Artificial intelligence is better than none.

[tbw2]

No, not all jobs will go away. And automation freeing up labor will bring down the cost of labor, keeping demand high.

The Great Shift Toward Automation and the Future of Employment
http://hubpages.com/business/The-Great-Shift-and-the-Future-of-Employment