Your job probably isn't creative enough to stave off the job-taking robots


As much as we'd like to think we are all special snowflakes who do our jobs with a certain flair that makes us irreplaceable, the unfortunate truth is that cold, hard machinery could replace many of us humans — and it would probably save employers a ton of money.
A new report co-written by Oxford University academics and Nesta, a London-based nonprofit research group, found that less than a quarter (21 percent) of all 702 categorized occupations in the U.S. were deemed creative enough to likely evade an impending robot takeover. Here are the top five jobs with the least likelihood that they will become automated in the near future, via The Wall Street Journal:
1. Translators and interpreters (5.8 percent)2. Performing artists (7 percent)3. Radio broadcasters (7.7 percent)4. Film and TV producers (8 percent)5. R&D on natural sciences (10.9 percent)
While artsy occupations bring a human charm that will be tough for robots to replicate, many employees in agriculture and manufacturing are in grave danger of being made redundant by machines. If you're in one of the fields below, you may want to check over your shoulder to make sure a robot isn't coming to snatch up your job:
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1. Peat extractors (100 percent)2 .Motion picture projectionists (97 percent)3. Copper producers (70.7 percent)4. Mailing list publishers (69 percent)5. Bartenders (67.5 percent)
Perhaps the most troubling thing about the list above is the inclusion of bartenders, who, according to the study, could easily be replaced by robots in the near future. If that's the case, do you think robots do buybacks?
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Samantha Rollins is TheWeek.com's news editor. She has previously worked for The New York Times and TIME and is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.
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