This report explored future automation and creativity in the UK and US workforces and found that creative jobs will be much more resistant to automation than most other jobs.
These findings reflect the fact that machines can most successfully emulate humans when a problem is well specified in advance and when the work task environment is sufficiently simple to enable autonomous control. They will struggle when tasks are highly interpretive, geared at ‘products whose final form is not fully specified in advance’, and when work task environments are complex – a good description of most creative occupations.
Publication date: 17 April 2015
