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The idea of a robot taking over your job may sound like the plot from the latest episode of Black Mirror.
But experts predict that it could soon become a reality for many people in the future.
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne recently developed an interactive tool that reveals which jobs are most and least likely to be filled by robots.
Their findings suggest that meat packers, cleaners and builders are most at risk of being replaced by machines, while teachers, lawyers and physicists are safe for now.
So how safe is your work? Scroll down to use the interactive tool and find out.
The idea of a robot taking over your job may sound like the plot from the latest episode of Black Mirror. But experts predict that it could soon become a reality for many people in the future
To create the tool, the team combined scientific and technical literature on robot skills with employment and wage statistics on 1,000 jobs.
This enabled them to calculate which existing jobs are most at risk of being performed by robots in the future.
“There are several studies that predict how many jobs will be automated by robots, but they all focus on software robots, such as speech and image recognition, financial robo-advisors, chatbots, and so on,” explains Professor Dario Floreano, who led the study.
“Moreover, those predictions fluctuate wildly depending on how job requirements and software skills are assessed.
“Here we are looking not only at artificial intelligence software, but also at real intelligent robots doing physical work and we have developed a method for a systematic comparison of human and robot capabilities used in hundreds of jobs.”
The team’s calculations show that jobs requiring millimeter-level movements are most likely to be performed by robots, which can mimic those movements.
Meanwhile, jobs that require critical thinking or creativity are least likely to be taken by my robots, which lack those skills.
Researchers at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have revealed which jobs are most and least likely to be taken by robots
Their findings suggest that meat packers (stock image), cleaners and builders are most at risk of being replaced by machines, while teachers, lawyers and physicists are safe.
Their results rank the 1,000 jobs from most to least likely to be taken over by robots.
Overall, it shows that jobs in food processing, construction and maintenance, construction and extraction are the most likely to be taken on my robot.
Conversely, jobs in education, training and library, community and social services and management are least at risk.
Based on the results, the researchers devised a method for suggesting the easiest career transitions for people whose jobs are at risk, which they believe governments could use to reduce unemployment in the future.
For example, the tool suggests that butchers and meat packers can become textile rewinders, twisters and drawing machines, operators and tenderers.
Meanwhile, according to the tool, janitors and cleaners would be the most suitable to become models.
The new study comes shortly after the World Economic Forum warned that robots will take over half of all workplace tasks by 2025.
The research foresees that robots will soon replace humans in accounting, customer management, industry, post and secretarial services.
Jobs that require “human skills,” such as sales, marketing, and customer service, meanwhile, should see an increase in demand, along with e-commerce and social media.
A major challenge will be retraining workers, who themselves will be pressured to update skills, particularly in the areas of “creativity, critical thinking and persuasiveness,” the study found.
It is critical that companies take an active role in supporting their existing workforce through reskilling and upskilling, that individuals take a proactive approach to their own lifelong learning, and that governments create an enabling environment to facilitate this workforce transformation. to make. This is the most important challenge of our time,” said Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum.