Two in five Irish jobs at risk from robots

Two out of every five jobs in Ireland are set to disappear or change substantially over the next 20 years because of increasing automation.

Robots, IT, and artificial intelligence are all making growing inroads into the workplace, leaving only a select range of jobs at low risk of take-over.

Those jobs are most likely to be in education, health, social work, information and communications, although it would not hurt to be a high ranking army officer, corporate chief executive, or personal attendant in the leisure industry either.