With the rise of automation, computerization and artificial intelligence, it’s perfectly justifiable to start worrying about whether or not a robot is going to take your job. Luckily, a new website parses the data and lets you know how endangered your career field may be.
Will Robots Take My Job is a simple, clean website, that makes it easy to see how doomed your job may be. Just type in a career, and the site will give you a percentage — that’s the probability that automation will affect a certain job position, or in laymen’s terms, how likely a robot will steal your job. The site also adds some useful data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, like average income and job growth estimates.
As an example, graphic designers are rather safe with just an 8.2 percent chance of automation. Cashiers, on the other hand, have a 97 percent probability of being replaced (you can probably credit Amazon Go for that). For taxi drivers and chauffeurs, it’s an 89 percent chance of automation.
The site was developed by Dimitar Raykov and Mubashar Iqbal, and it’s based on data sourced from a 2013 report titled “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation?” According to that report’s estimates, around 47 percent of all jobs in the U.S. are at risk. Worth noting is that the site only applies to the U.S. job market currently — but it could easily serve as a model for economies abroad, too.
It may seem like a bleak future, but one that’s looking increasingly more likely. At least now you can look at your odds and plan for the future accordingly.
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