Automation: Rise of the machines

Three different sized robots

A recent study has placed underwriters near the top of a list of jobs most at risk of being phased out in favour of automated systems. But how real is the prospect of underwriters being replaced by machines, and should it be welcomed or feared?

Machines – in recent decades in the form of computers - have been changing employment and creating and eliminating jobs since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. The pace of that change is

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