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Consulting themselves out of a job

The professional service industry recommends and implements the most cutting-edge technologies to clients, but could these technologies eventually replace them?

09 November 2017

The fourth industrial revolution will be digitised, swooping up jobs in its wake. And not just the menial factory jobs that can be automated by robots. Lawyers, medical doctors, financial advisers, and those involved in any professional services will also need to watch their backs.

Artificially intelligent (AI) algorithms can comb through vast datasets (that knowledge professionals spend years acquiring), apply methodologies (practices professionals spend years honing), and come to conclusions faster than any human. What’s more, these conclusions will not be coloured by any bias.

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