Also highly automatable are butchers and meat cutters, bakers, bus mechanics and laundry workers. Security guard jobs are 40% automatable (note, this is already happening).

Increasing the minimum wage decreases significantly the share of employment held by low-skilled workers in jobs for which machines can be substituted for people, an NBER paper finds.

Share of automatable jobs: 63.9%. Source: ISEA. 1. Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV. Elvis tribute artist Paige Poole. AP Photo/John Locher ...

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A group of researchers from Ochanomizu University and the University of Oxford surveyed 65 AI experts from Japan and the U.K. about how automatable a variety of domestic tasks – cooking, grocery ...

The effects are largest in manufacturing: a 10% increase in the minimum wage leads to a 0.73 percentage point decrease in the share of automatable jobs done by low-skilled workers. Researchers found ...

“So we told the algorithm that waiters were non-automatable, and yet, despite that, the algorithm came back and told us that the probability was .94.” Subscribe to the Daily newsletter.