In TrendsStock MarketStocks to WatchLPG PriceflydubaiNifty OutlookGold and Silver Prices TodayOil PricesThe machines have a type: male, blue-collar and lower-paidA new Anthropic study finds the jobs most exposed to physical automation are held mostly by men, with fewer qualifications and smaller pay packets. But the price tag means no stampede is imminent.By Asmi Saxena October 2, 2026, 12:12:46 AM IST (Published)(Photo Credit : AI Generated )For the past few years, the anxious conversation about artificial intelligence has revolved around the white-collar worker: the analyst, the paralegal, the junior copywriter. A new report from Anthropic tells that the next wave may land on a quite different set of shoulders.The study scores how well today's robots can perform around 19,000 job tasks in the US. The study leads with this: robots can already do about three-quarters of physical tasks, which amounts to 34% of all working hours but most of that work can be done only in tightly controlled settings. A workforce with a distinct profileThe study compares the fifth of workers most exposed to robots with the roughly 20% whose jobs have no robot-exposed tasks at all, using American Community Survey data for 2020 to 2024. The contrast is stark.Highly exposed…
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