Relax: You Won't Be Replaced by a Robot
You'll just have to share your job with one.
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Don't think a robot could take your job? A study in the latest issue of McKinsey Quarterly says as many as 45 percent of the tasks that Americans get paid to do could be automated. The share rises to 58 percent if computers get as good as the median human being at speech recognition and understanding.
The study's most depressing finding is that a lot of what people do at work is rote. Just 4 percent of Americans' work activities require creativity at the level a normal person has, and just 29 percent require sensing emotion, the authors conclude. (Though it isn't clear the humans are sensing emotion like crazy, either.)