Computers threaten 'middle-class jobs' in the law

Posts in law, accountancy and medicine are the most vulnerable in the face of developing technology, according to a former leading UK political adviser.
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Posts in law, accountancy and medicine are the most vulnerable in the face of developing technology Yanik Chauvin

Rohan Silva, former a strategic adviser to British prime minister David Cameron, says jobs are being systematically developed for the top and bottom workplace sectors but that politicians have been unable to develop a coherent strategy for the middle. They are falling to address the ‘actual causes’, he claims. He said: ‘Take legal services - text-analysing and data-mining software is doing the work of paralegals - or the accounting profession, in which algorithms are taking over from human auditors.’ Source: Daily Mail

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