Driven by the economic benefits of tireless labour, machines have been replacing human workers since
the industrial revolution. Historically, tasks such as manufacturing have been most susceptible to
automation. However, due to recent advances in computing, such as machine learning, cognitive tasks,
such as decision-making, are becoming increasingly susceptible to automation through AI. A range of
industries are being overblown by AI, from technologies such as self-driving cars, through to software
that writes plain English news stories from arranged data.