automatable
- adjective
- /ˈɔːtəmˌeɪtəbl/
- Specialized
- While jobs in "accommodations and food services" are among the most automatable in the U.S. economy (73%), low wages in that sector tend to slow the process of automation.
- automatable jobs
- most automatable
And we were talking about math in a world in which all of math is essentially automatable.
- And we were talking about math in a world in which all of math is essentially automatable.
- And, you know, this is it's kind of shocking that rather quickly, you know, a lot of that stuff is clearly automatable.
Examples
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Much more automatable are the collection of data (64%); processing of data (69%); and predictable physical activities (81%).
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By comparison, work in the health care and social assistance sector is just 36% automatable.
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As a result, the most automatable jobs may not be the first to disappear.
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Least automatable are management and development of people (9%); application of expertise to decision making, planning, and creative tasks (18%); interacting with stakeholders like customers, suppliers, or the public (20%); and unpredictable physical activities (26%).
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The process is likely to be faster for software innovations (which are easier and cheaper to implement) than for robots, faster for higher-wage but automatable jobs, and faster in higher-wage countries like the United States.
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As a result, the most automatable jobs may not be the first to disappear.
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By comparison, work in the health care and social assistance sector is just 36% automatable.
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Low-paying jobs are the most vulnerable, as you'd expect, because they tend to be the most routine, and thus the most automatable, kinds of work.
Synonyms
Can be set to do tasks by a computer or by instructions
Antonyms
How Automatable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Automatable comes from the prefix auto- meaning 'self' and the familiar word automatic, which means 'working by itself'. So, something automatable can be done by machines or made to run 'by itself' instead of by people.