Robot-proof Jobs



Interesting series this week on NPR's Marketplace with David Brancaccio about jobs that may be "robot-proof."
NPR Marketplace Robot-Proof Jobs


He traveled around the country interviewing people that are doing tasks that will be hard to automate (like music composer for example). His background information was drawn from the McKinsey report on potential for automation. This is a work in progress and the page has links to Tableau datasets and a cool "suitable for framing" poster of jobs and automation.
McKinsey Global Report


Bottomline: McKinsey suggests about 45% of paid job functions could be replaced by AI/robotics technology that is available today. They note that about 60% of occupations will likely see some amount of AI/robotic impact.


So at the end of this morning's NPR segment, Brancaccio mentioned an interesting concept--since people won't be able to be paid for their work we will all need to own a robot or two that will work for us and thus we will earn a "living" from the productive return on our capital investments. A robot would be your surrogate worker.








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