Low wage workers are at risk of losing their job to robots an Oxford University study has warned.

The study shows they are more likely to lose their jobs due to new technologies and less likely to have the skills required to switch to newly created jobs.

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The pandemic has accelerated workplace automation and, while technological change is likely to create as well as destroy jobs, today’s study shows automation can increase unemployment even if the total number of jobs available in the economy stays the same.

This is because a new jobs in data science are of little help to an unemployed taxi driver, for example.

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