Top 5 tech jobs most under threat from automation

Stuart Sumner
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It's not just drivers and cashiers who are under threat from AI. Here are the first jobs likely to disappear from IT

Iain M Banks' Culture series of sci-fi novels imagined a civilisation almost entirely devoted to leisure. Almost all jobs were performed by super-intelligent AI ‘minds' and their robotic drones, an...

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