The Jobs That Bots Will Take Over First

Translators and truck drivers, beware

By Arden Dier, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 1, 2017 12:46 PM CDT

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When Computers Will Beat Humans in Different Jobs — A Chinese Go player reacts as he plays a match against Google's artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, in China on May 25, 2017. (Chinatopix via AP)

It’s not a question of "if," but "when" artificial intelligence will be able to perform your job better than you do, reports the MIT Technology Review. So when is when? That depends on what you do. According to 352 AI experts surveyed by researchers at the University of Oxford, translators and truck drivers will be among the first to be pushed out of work by artificial intelligence. Here are experts' predictions for when AI will master these human skills:

Translate languages: 2024
Write a high school essay: 2026
Drive trucks: 2027
Work in retail: 2031
Write a best-selling book: 2049
Perform surgery: 2053

Experts further believe there's a 50% chance that AI will be better than humans at almost everything by 2062 and will automate all human jobs by 2137, per ZDNet—though, of course, these are only predictions. (More artificial intelligence stories.)

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