Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence - And The Future Of Accounting

Robots are NOT going to replace all human accountants or bookkeepers (at least not anytime soon). White-collar workers who are part of the knowledge economy are beginning to experience what manual laborers have in the past when new technology made their jobs obsolete. Given the improvements we have recently seen in computing, many professionals fear for their future as machines threaten to overtake them. Rather than fear changes that machine learning will have on accounting tasks, it's an opportunity for accounting professionals to be excited. The profession is going to become more interesting as repetitive tasks shift to machines.