Nearly half of jobs could be automated in the future. Here's what the researchers are saying

Many of the discussions on automation surround how it will impact manual labor. However, while it's easy to see how robotics can take over precise and repetitive manufacturing tasks, the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is allowing for more cognition-based tasks to be taken over by computers as well. Chui stated, "In about 60 percent of occupations, over 30 percent of the things that people do could be automated -- either using robots or artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning, all of these technologies that we're hearing more and more about."