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19 jobs least likely to be replaced by robots

The future of work
Nuclear engineers: 7% chance of automation
Financial Managers: 6.9% chance of automation
Writers and Authors: 3.8% chance of automation
Veterinarians: 3.8% chance of automation
Lawyers: 3.5% chance of automation
Pharmacists: 1.2% chance of automation
Registered nurses: 0.9% chance of automation
Clergymen/women: 0.8% chance of automation
Anthropologist and archaeologists: 0.8% chance of automation
Forester: 0.8% chance of automation
 Curators: 0.7% chance of automation
Speech language pathologists: 0.6% chance of automation
Human resources managers: 0.6% chance of automation
Elementary school teacher: 0.4% chance of automation
Oral and maxillofacial surgeons: 0.4% chance of automation
Choreographers: 0.4% chance of automation
Healthcare social workers: 0.4% chance of automation
Psychiatrists and psychologists: 0.4% chance of automation
Recreational therapist: 0.3% chance of automation
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The future of work

Children born in 2017 are unlikely to grow up to be truck drivers or insurance underwriters. That’s because these are two of the jobs most likely to be done by robots in the near future, according to research by Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne from the University of Oxford. But what jobs will survive the threat of automation? Read ahead to find out which jobs are safest.
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Rita Lobo

05 May 2017

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