Destruction of large numbers of jobs by robots unlikely, says new OECD Study
Actual OECD study: [1]<p>The study says that, for the US, 9% of people are at &quot;high risk&quot; of automated out of a job. (That probably means &quot;replaceable right now&quot;.) But 38% of people are potentially replaceable.<p>There&#x27;s an assumption in the OECD report that the entire job of a human must be replaced. But that&#x27;s not how automation works.  We&#x27;re seeing this in the more advanced law firms. What used to take a senior attorney, a few junior attorneys, a large number of paralegals, and a big clerical staff can now be done by one attorney, one paralegal, and a lot of software and databases. The OECD study claims that the risk to people with high levels of education is almost nil. Ask any newly graduated lawyer trying to get a job.<p>That&#x27;s the fundamental flaw in this study - it assumes one for one replacement.  What really happens is that the workflow is restructured so that fewer people and more hardware are involved.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&#x2F;docserver&#x2F;download&#x2F;5jlz9h56dvq7.pdf?expires=1463684508&amp;id=id&amp;accname=guest&amp;checksum=CC0BCD3C31853DF648C3DBEBC1258E1E" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.oecd-ilibrary.org&#x2F;docserver&#x2F;download&#x2F;5jlz9h56dvq7...</a>