Workers in Rochdale are at high risk of seeing their jobs automated
Date published: 17 October 2017
Workers will be replaced by robots
Workers in Rochdale are at high risk of seeing their jobs automated with at least 30% of current local workers' jobs being done by artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, according to research by the thinktank Future Advocacy.
Future Advocacy’s report represents the first attempt to show the impact at local level of the forthcoming AI revolution.
Workers in manufacturing and warehousing are those most likely to be replaced by robots, but AI will also affect jobs in other sectors because AI is also able to do intellectual tasks as well as routine physical tasks.
The report notes: “One thing that almost all economists agree on is that change is coming and that its scale and scope will be unprecedented.”
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