Kennedy: Automation will kill some jobs, augment others | The Daily Gazette
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We’ve all read the lists of jobs that could be made obsolete by artificial intelligence and automation: factory worker, bank teller, telemarketer, journalist (gulp!).
Although such listings aren’t new, a discussion paper published in September by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia suggested the pace of displacement likely has been accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic.
“[T]he pandemic-induced massive layoffs hit automatable jobs, especially those in the service sectors, particularly hard, putting those jobs at an elevated risk of being fully automated” and never returning, according to the paper.