Predictions for what robots will do to the US workforce, ranked from certain doom to potential utopia

Do you believe AI and robots taking over jobs is, as Elon Musk recently put it, the "biggest risk that we face as a civilization?" There's probably a research-backed prediction that supports your view. We've ranked them here, in order from "certain doom" to "possible utopia," for your convenience. How they got there: Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, researchers at Oxford University, asked machine-learning experts to assess whether a sample set of occupations were "automatable" or "not automatable," which helped to inform how the presence of "engineering bottlenecks" that couldn't be easily automated, such as creativity and social engineers, factored into whether an occupation could be automated. They created a machine-learning algorithm to estimate a probability of automation across each US occupation.