IT Workers, Doctors, Dentists Less Likely to Lose Jobs to Robots

By Jennifer Ryan | December 22, 2015

  • December 22, 2015 at 2:33 pm
    Uh oh says:
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    There go the underwriters…

    • December 22, 2015 at 3:50 pm
      Agent says:
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      There goes the Actuaries as well. Predictive Modeling by a robot might look different than the current idiots doing their algorithms.

      • December 23, 2015 at 11:24 am
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        be careful agent, robots could take over your insurance journal posts too. all we have to do is feed it your talking points (progressive socialists! millenials! texters! drug users! democrats! non Texas residents! muslims! autonomous cars! actuaries!), tell it to be nasty and insulting all the time, and tell it to ignore any person’s questions. then what will you do with all your free time at work?

  • December 22, 2015 at 2:48 pm
    Agent says:
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    17 million in Britain with deficient skills, huh. Take that times 10 in the USA.

  • December 22, 2015 at 5:36 pm
    JB says:
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    Just wait until the robots start making digital demands:
    “I need more spa time in Silicon Valley”
    “I really need more time for tetris”
    “I need another ‘C’, I only have a CPU”
    “This job bytes, I quit”
    “My name is ROM Emmanuel, vote for me.”
    “Change the name of the LA Rams to La RAMS, or else..”
    “Relax, it’ just 17 trillion terra-bytes, we’ll just keep printing more memory”
    “Oh yeah? Why don’t you go F10 yourself”
    “Wow, HAL sure does have a chip on his shoulder”
    “It’s always 00001001 this, and 00100010 that – I want some 2’s and 3’s”

    To name just a few…

    • December 22, 2015 at 5:51 pm
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      Good one JB. I think a lot of people might be concerned that the Robots become “self aware” and decide people are not needed anymore and blow everyone up.

      • December 23, 2015 at 10:07 am
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        “a lot of people”? nope. just you and the other xenophobes

      • August 26, 2016 at 11:23 am
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        Hey…what about Terminator :)

  • December 23, 2015 at 11:27 am
    JB says:
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    xenophobe? are you sure you didn’t mean robophobe?

    • December 23, 2015 at 12:24 pm
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      You mean Automatonophobia? Yes, I had no idea that word even existed until I googled ‘fear of sentient robots’ :) Anyway, I like robophobe better – I’m using your term from now on!

      • December 28, 2015 at 5:55 pm
        Agent says:
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        You sure used the word “Schadenfreude”. Did you Google that so you could throw it out in one of your word parsing tirades?

        • December 29, 2015 at 1:11 pm
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          No

  • December 23, 2015 at 1:34 pm
    JB says:
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    Thanks, Rosenblatt. I have to admit that I made up that word, and I’ve got a few more:
    Fear of wolves: lobophobe
    Fear of thinking: lobephobe
    Fear of people that act like clowns: bozophobe
    Fear of the homeless: hobophobe
    Fear of the FBI investigating your e-mails: probe-a-phobe
    If you’re told you have nothing to fear but fear itself, and you’re afraid anyway, you are a: phobe-a-phobe

    • December 30, 2015 at 4:41 pm
      Agent says:
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      Some on this blog have Hydrophobia and foam at the mouth when a Conservative like me offers a post.

  • December 24, 2015 at 7:27 am
    Ron says:
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    And people wonder why the Labor Participation Rate is so low.

    • December 30, 2015 at 1:03 pm
      Agent says:
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      I believe it is tied to low information voters, a bad education system that doesn’t teach skills and the entitlement society your twice voted for Obummer who encourages food stamps, free this, free that and why work when you can ride the backs of hard working tax payers.

      • December 30, 2015 at 3:59 pm
        Cell Phone User says:
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        You aren’t going to insult me and my friends this time? We feel left out.

        • December 30, 2015 at 4:43 pm
          Agent says:
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          Hey Cell, you have nothing to fear from me as long as you don’t text and drive. That is a no no and please don’t tell me that you can multi-task and can handle it. You can’t and the stats back that up.

          • December 30, 2015 at 7:16 pm
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            Agent,

            YOU FEAR NO ONE!!!!

          • August 26, 2016 at 12:09 pm
            Agent says:
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            Hilliary has a new disease called Assangephobia and it may prove to be fatal come about 10-1.

      • December 30, 2015 at 7:15 pm
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        Agent,

        Thank you for yet another, useless, irrelevant post.



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