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Loan officers are one of the top 19 professions most likely to be replaced by robots over the next two decades, according to a study carried out by Oxford University researchers.
The report, titled “The Future of Employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation,” singled out a number of careers doomed to become de-humanised, including various administration, sales and construction jobs.
“Our model predicts that most workers in transportation and logistics occupations, together with the bulk of office and administrative support workers and labour in production occupations, are at risk,” the researchers wrote in the study.
The top 19 jobs most likely to be taken over by robots include:
1.Telemarketers
2.Title examiners, abstractors and searchers
3.Hand sewers
4.Mathematical technicians
5.Insurance underwriters
6.Watch repairers
7.Cargo and freight agents
8.Tax preparers
9.Photographic process workers and processing machine operators
10.New Accounts clerks
11.Library technicians
12.Data entry keyers
13.Timing device assemblers and adjusters
14.Insurance claims and policy processing clerks
15.Brokerage clerks
16.Order clerks
17.Loan officers
18.Insurance appraisers (auto damage)
19.Umpires, referees and other sports officials
