Robots set to exterminate ... your job
According to The Age, the likelihood of robots taking your job is increasing as more advanced robots are being built with improved artificial intelligence technology. The next generation of robots are set to replace blue and white collar jobs. Robots replacing certain jobs will have a knock on affect down the industry supply chain, for example as automated cars increase, taxi drivers will be replaced and the need for car insurance will lessen as accidents become less frequent.
Will a robot replace you at work? The odds, increasingly, say yes.The good news is that one recent analysis of the job with a 99 per cent chance to be replaced by a machine is telemarketing.

There is admittedly some personal delight in learning that. I also now understand why parents always cherish the idea that their child wanted to be a doctor. Not for the prestige or money but for job security. The same analysis gives only a 0.4 per cent chance a robot will replace that occupation.

A Japanese hotel's reception area is 'manned' by a robot. Credit: Bloomberg

If you keep up on the chatter about the future of work, it's tough to avoid the buzz about a new wave of automated machines and robots empowered with advanced artificial intelligence. (We're way past the Roomba automated vacuum cleaner from iRobot.) Next-generation robots will begin to take over not just blue-collar, repetitive-motion jobs, but also white-collar occupations like bankers and even fashion model.

If we shift to driverless (automated) cars (goodbye, taxi drivers), then in theory we'll have far fewer collisions (see ya, auto repair shops), ambulance calls (farewell, emergency med techs), less need for auto coverage (so long, insurance agents), attorneys (adios, personal injury lawyers) and certainly their overwhelming barrage of radio and TV ads (adieu, advertising agencies).