Will robots take our jobs

What are the chances a robot or computer will one day take over your job according to one study 47 percent of. US jobs have a high probability of becoming computerized and recently the Pew Research Center surveyed 1,900 experts who all agreed that automation and artificial intelligence will truly pervade our lives by 2025 but nearly half of the experts aren't optimistic about this automation at all they say robots and other tech will displace blue and white collar workers masses of people will be effectively unemployed still you have the other half of experts saying yes robots will do lots of work but humans will innovate to find new types of employment just as they did after the. Industrial Revolution automated many jobs so what's it like out there right now to economists came up with the list of jobs according to how likely they could be automated among the top 15 jobs were things like proofreaders bank tellers secretaries and cashiers almost all of these positions are already in decline in the.

US workforce but what about those jobs with the lowest likelihood for automation well these were things like athletes firefighters teachers and curators so how should people prepare for the day when robots really take over well maybe make sure your kids master the pitch instead of the keyboard David Botti BBC News Washington.