{"id":4629,"date":"2019-08-08T19:27:40","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T19:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr4free.com\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2019-08-10T14:03:29","modified_gmt":"2019-08-10T14:03:29","slug":"ai-revolution-can-all-jobs-be-automated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hr4free.com\/en\/Economy-and-Labor-Market\/AI-Revolution-Automation\/can-all-jobs-be-automated\/","title":{"rendered":"AI revolution: can all jobs be automated?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the past few years, apocalyptic forecasts regarding the ‘future of work’ have regularly been hitting the headlines. From the Silicon Valley’s Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk – to leading consulting groups such as McKinsey and PricewaterhouseCoopers, major economic players have been consistently issuing alarming statements. So, are robots really going to take over our jobs?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Distasteful sensationalism or pragmatic warning? An ambitious McKinsey study on the ‘future of work’<\/a> published at the end of 2017 has found much echo in the press internationally. The question of what role artificial intelligence (AI) is destined to play in this revolution, however, seems to have\u00a0 remained somewhat of a media blind spot…<\/em><\/h6>\n

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As early as 2013, an Oxford University study had asserted that some 47% of US jobs were at “high risk” of being automated “in the next decade or two”<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

An assessment that would very quickly receive the backing of PricewaterhouseCoopers, according to which 38% of all US jobs might purely and simply disappear <\/strong><\/a>“by 2030” !<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat\u2019s going to happen is that robots will be able to do everything better than us… I mean all of us. The robots will be able to do everything.”<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard prophecy: get prepared for a world without work – and for universal basic income!<\/em><\/h6>\n

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Similarly, Deloitte’s UK subsidiary<\/a> <\/strong>had already warned in 2016<\/span><\/strong> that 35% of all British jobs were “at high risk of automation in the next 10 to 20 years”…<\/p>\n

More recently, McKinsey announced the ‘displacement’ of 1-1,2 million jobs by 2030 in Switzerland<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Which happens to represent 20-25% of the nation’s total jobs market<\/span>…<\/strong> and we are only talking here of a ‘midpoint scenario’!<\/p>\n

Indeed, according to the distinguished consulting group, the “automation potential” in our economies<\/a> <\/strong>is quite staggering: 56% in Japan (35,6 million jobs), 50% in Italy (11,8 million jobs), 48% in Germany (20,5 million jobs), 47% in Switzerland (2 million jobs), 46% in the US (60,6 million jobs), 43% in France (9,7 million jobs) – as well as in the UK (11, 9 million jobs)… A fantastic opportunity of profit margin expansion for (big) companies, which may end up sparing trillions<\/span> in wages every year (p.9) <\/a><\/strong>– of which:<\/p>\n