An OECD report suggests robots could soon take 66m jobs from humans. That isn’t as bad as previously expected. But who will be first to lose their jobs to machines?

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A new report from the OECD – the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development – looked at the extent to which jobs may soon be automated in 32 different countries, and found that 66 million people are at risk of losing their job to machines. That means 14% of jobs currently held by humans could soon be managed by robots. The level of risk varies from industry to industry and country to country, but in the UK about 10% of jobs are considered at high risk.

However, the results are a lot more positive when compared with previous studies, some of which estimated the percentage of jobs susceptible to automation could be as high as 47%.

So what happens when a person loses their job to a machine? Who is most at risk of being replaced by a robot? And is this looming wave of automation some kind of humanitarian crisis, or are we living through another industrial revolution that will force us to adapt?

In this week’s episode, Jordan Erica Webber chats to the Guardian’s economics editor, Larry Elliott, and Jeremy Wyatt, a professor of robotics and artificial intelligence at the University of Birmingham.

Our tech fact this week involves robots and cocktails.