December 21, 2016 at 04:47PM
"47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by computerization in the next decade or two." #autonomicFuture #readingToday

[T]here are likely to be market disruptions as well as opportunities, and some employment sectors will be disrupted more than others. For example, truckers and other people who drive for a living face a relatively high risk of being displaced by autonomous vehicles, while housekeepers face a relatively low risk of being displaced by cleaning robots.

Estimates of how many jobs will be lost to automation vary widely: One group of researchers suggested that 47 percent of U.S. jobs are at risk of being replaced by AI technologies and computerization in the next decade or two. A different set of researchers at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development concluded that only 9 percent of jobs are at risk of being completely displaced.

White House experts say dealing with the coming revolution in artificial intelligence is likely to require modernizing America's social safety net.