Uncovering the Perils of Job Replacements by Machines: Experience it through an Interactive Tool!

The idea of ​​a robot taking your job may sound a bit fantastic, but experts predict it could soon become a reality for many people in the future.

Researchers at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne have recently developed an interactive tool that shows which jobs are most and least likely to be filled by robots.

Their results show that meat packers, cleaners and construction workers face the greatest risk of being replaced by machines, while teachers, lawyers and physicists are currently safe.

To create the tool, the team combined scientific and technical literature on the capabilities of robots with employment and wage statistics for 1,000 jobs.

This allowed them to calculate current jobs that are most at risk of being filled by robots in the future.

Professor Dario Floriano, who led the study, explained: “There are many studies that predict the number of jobs that will be automated with bots, but they all focus on software bots such as speech and image recognition, financial advisory bots, chat bots. etc. However, these predictions fluctuate greatly depending on how job requirements and software capabilities are evaluated. Here, we consider not only AI programs, but also real intelligent robots performing physical labor, and developed a way to systematically compare human capabilities and a robot. used in hundreds of works.

The team’s calculations show that jobs that require millimeter-level precision in movement are likely to be performed by robots that can replicate those movements.

Meanwhile, jobs that require critical thinking or creativity are less likely to be filled by robots that lack those skills.

Their results ranked 1,000 jobs in order from most likely to least likely to be taken over by bots.

Based on the findings, the researchers came up with a way to offer the easiest job transitions for people whose jobs are at risk, which they say governments can use to reduce future unemployment.

For example, this tool suggests that meat packers can move to winders and haulers and operators.

The new study comes shortly after the World Economic Forum warned that robots will be performing more than half of all tasks in the workplace by 2025.

The study predicts that robots will rapidly replace humans in accounting, customer management, manufacturing, postal and secretarial fields. Jobs that require “human skills” such as sales, marketing and customer service should be in high demand at the same time as e-commerce and social media.

The study showed that the main challenge would be to retrain workers who themselves would have to update skills, especially in the areas of “creativity, critical thinking and persuasion.”

It is critical that companies play an active role in supporting their existing workforce through reskilling and reskilling, that people take a proactive approach to lifelong learning, and that governments create an enabling environment to promote workforce transformation.

Source: Daily Mail