If your job can be automated, it most probably will be; and why that’s a good thing….

Ritabrata Maiti
6 min readJun 15, 2018
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Unless you have been living under a rock, you would most probably have heard about Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Automation. And if you have, you probably think that you know enough about those topics to know that your job is safe from automation.

However, most of us(myself included, until recently) couldn't be further from the truth. Apart from industry experts or researchers in a joint knowledge of social economics and Data Science/AI, we are mostly unaware of the true ramifications of automation. So before we discuss the silver lining(the "why that's a good thing" part of the title), let us discuss a few sectors which are most likely to be automated, which are often overlooked in the traditional list of jobs that would be lost to automation.

If you want to go over to the solutions directly, then you are more than welcome to skip the following four points as the article maintains its structure either way.

1. The Financial Analysis Sector

Credits: https://disruptionhub.com/ai-financial-trading/

This is a no-brainer. There are tons of amazing data analysis tools out there which…

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