Will Big Data Make Data Scientists Redundant?

A recent report predicts that a 100 million jobs could be at risk of being made redundant by automation. These are expected to include roles from supermarket cashier to accountant, as robotics and machine learning become increasingly able to perform routine tasks more efficiently than we can. But surely if there is one job title which will be safe from the inevitable rise of the machines it will be data scientist or big data analyst – after all haven't I been championing that career path as one with a bright future for some time now? And computers will always need a human to tell them what to do at some point, right? Sure a computer can learn, but won't it always need a human to teach it how - and tell it what - to learn?