Jobs that are dangerous or involve repetitive labor are most at risk of becoming obsolete as automation continues to rise. And that means some racial groups will suffer more than others.

Americans favor assigning to robots jobs that are dangerous and unhealthy for humans rather than those that require human sensibilities (such as caregiving and driving), according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center. Latinos, especially Latino men, are heavily overrepresented in those challenging, and oftentimes repetitive, roles ...

Proposals to tax robots and automation, among other efforts, seek to curtail the spread of new technologies. But assuming those attempts are unsuccessful, creating more education opportunities that target Latinos could help improve their employment prospects. Entrenched school and housing segregation means that Latinos have far less access than whites to resources that determine their longer-term education and job trajectories, largely by influencing who gets what skills early on.

Automation threatens to exacerbate a pattern in which Latinos are stuck at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder: In depriving them of jobs — and often pushing them into the devastating cycle of long-term unemployment, the trend will make it increasingly difficult for low-income Latinos to enter the middle class.

Read the full article about how automation disproportionally affects Latinos' jobs by Lolade Fadulu at The Atlantic.