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.