Automation will reshape Australia's job market for decades to come

Seven years ago, headlines were sensational and alarmist after Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne estimated that 47% of American jobs were at high risk of automation. While we agree that the rise of automation and intelligent technologies such as robots, AI, and machine learning are radically reshaping work across the globe, the hype continues to cloud the discussion. Alarmists continue to say that half of all jobs will disappear; technologists can't wait for the robots to arrive; policymakers are nervous; and business leaders see opportunity everywhere. Automation will create real change in how we get things done. Business and government leaders at all levels must plan for the transformation of human work.