RoboSellers And RoboBuyers: A Thought Experiment

In 2013, Oxford Professors Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne claimed that 47% of US jobs are susceptible to “computerization.” In their model, sales jobs were among the most likely positions to be automated. Salespeople in technical fields had a 25% probability of being computerized while those in non-technical fields faced 85% odds of automation. Both insurance agents and retail salespeople were given a 92% probability of being replaced by machines—eventually.