Scientists from Oxford University have estimated that half of current jobs will likely be automated and will soon disappear from the labor market! The situation looks very alarming.

The most at-risk jobs are those that don't require high creativity, e.g. administrative workers, assemblers, domestic helpers and cleaners, train drivers, mining machine operators, security guards, and cashiers. The latter are already beginning to be pushed out of the labor market, as retail chains are increasingly making self-checkout lanes available to customers.

In certain industries there will be less work, or none at all—that's certain. But at the same time, completely new professions, previously unknown, are still being created and will continue to be. Programmers will probably be among the last to be replaced by robots. After all, someone has to program all of this. Just a dozen or so years ago, a profession like mobile app developer didn't exist at all. We had to wait until smartphones flooded the market. A few years later came robot vacuum cleaners, and now we're working on autonomous cars. Someone had to invent it, and analysts, system designers, software engineers, and programmers were also needed to bring these inventions to life—says Marcin Kosedowski, head of marketing at the online programming school Kodilla.com

The full statement is available below:

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According to the forecasts on the website "Will Robots Take My Job?" the highest-risk group includes professions such as:

  • telemarketers (as much as 99%)
  • ophthalmic laboratory technicians (97%)
  • accountants (94%)
  • crane operators (90%)

A bit safer are:

  • taxi drivers (89%)
  • librarians (65%)
  • audio-video equipment technicians (55%),

while those who should start worrying are:

  • economists (43%).

Completely safe are:

  • computer systems analysts (0.65%)
  • app developers (4.2%)
  • software developers (13%)

Professions that are not currently threatened by sudden automation may, contrary to expectations, also disappear from the market in the near future. Time will tell how the situation unfolds; in the meantime, the only thing left for us is to educate ourselves in the direction of new technologies—that's the safest solution.