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A new Future of Australian Jobs Report has predicted which vocations are most likely to be automated within the next 10 years. Yikes.
The data has been generated by Pearson‘s workforce data and analytics platform Faethm. Pearson is an AI and tech company that specialises in learning and education productions.
According to the company, Faethm “analyses billions of data points to make AI-powered predictions of the future of jobs and skills”.
For this report it utilised S-curve modelled predictions of several jobs and professions against the number of full-time-equivalent roles within that sector in Australia.
Which Australian jobs are most likely to be automated in the near future?
According to the report, these jobs are most likely to be automated in the next 10 years.
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