The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?
Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne · Technological Forecasting and Social Change · 1 Oct 2016
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Frey and Osborne estimate how likely 702 US occupations are to be computerised, using expert judgements of which tasks machines can do. They classify about 47% of US employment as at high risk of automation over an unspecified number of years, a widely cited estimate of exposure rather than of jobs actually lost.
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Academic journal. Published in an academic journal — typically peer-reviewed before publication, though indexing alone doesn't guarantee review depth.
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- 2016 (122 months ago)
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author affiliation matches seed institutions oxford university, university of oxford — part of why this paper is in the collection.
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