Reality Check: Robots Are Here to Automate Your Job, or not

Do you hear the clunking sounds? Those are robots marching to take your job and put you on the brink of grim unemployment survival. Before you start frantically examining your job description, let's figure out what's going on. Even if you are the one who bothers to read the copy that follows the headlines, succumbing to alarmist stories is not hard to do, even for Huffington Post readers. Reporters often fail to explain exactly what stands behind the numbers. The most quoted study that estimates jobs susceptible to automation is the work by Carl Frey and Michael Osborne (so-called FO) The Future of Employment published in 2013 by Oxford University. This scientific research conducted four years ago still serves as the foundation of many predictions to render them more academically credible. And yes, it's them who estimated 47 percent.