Will Robots Take Your Job? - AUT University

A range of studies in recent months has warned of an imminent job apocalypse. The most famous of these suggests that up to 47 per cent of US jobs are at high-risk of automation over the next two decades. Another study finds 54 per cent of EU jobs are likely automatable, while the chief economist of the Bank of England has argued that 45 per cent of UK jobs are similarly under threat. This is not simply a rich country problem either, as low-income economies look set to be hit even harder by automation. It would seem that we are on the verge of a mass job extinction.