Physicians, dentists and computer scientists fret not: Your jobs are safe from the 80 million positions in the U.S. at risk of automation, according to Bank of England Chief Economist Andy Haldane.
Mr. Haldane said Monday to the Parliament that a BOE analysis shows IT engineers, physicians and dentists are the most difficult to be replicated by robots because they involve both technical and creative skill, Bloomberg Business reported. IT engineers have a 1 percent chance of being automated and physicians and dentists have a 2 percent chance of being automated, according to the report.
After that, he said, jobs that draw on emotional intelligence, like health social and childcare, is the second class of work that is "most impervious to the rise of robots," according to the report.
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