Machines may soon outperform humans in more than half of all NSW jobs, with admin workers, technicians and labourers in Sydney's west most likely to face upheaval at the hands of emerging technologies.

Two-fifths of NSW jobs are at high risk of being lost to computerisation and low- to middle-skilled workers across the state are expected to bear the brunt of pain brought by artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things and big data, according to a NSW government briefing paper released in December.

Aircraft engineering jobs are among those expected to become more affected by automation. Credit:Jessica Shapiro

The Future workforce trends in NSW: Emerging technologies and their potential impact report homes in on a sweep of electorates in Sydney's west as being most vulnerable to computerisation, with Auburn, Lakemba, Bankstown, Fairfield, Cabramatta, Liverpool, Macquarie Fields, Campbelltown, Blacktown, Mount Druitt and Londonderry set to lose thousands of jobs to automation in the next 10 to 15 years.

On average, 51.58 per cent of all NSW jobs are at risk of computerisation.