Artificial intelligence and automation are seeping into our daily working lives and female office workers are among those whose jobs are being taken over by machines.

That's according to new research provided toABC News by an Australian teaching organisation that's urging people to upskill so they don't find themselves out of work.

Pearson's research looks at roles that are likely to be automated as technology advances.

Historically, much of the conversationwhen it comes to automation has been about robots taking over factory jobs, or even replacing retail assistants in the form of self-service check-outs at supermarkets.

Pearson's data also shows the less obvious pictures of automation encroaching into office environments, including for medical receptionists, accountants and personal assistants.

"Some of the key (jobs) that are most impacted by technology are things like receptionists, waiters, bank workers, retail sales assistants," according to Sandya Baratha Raj, director of data science at Pearson.

"And the interesting thing is a lot of these roles are more likely to be female dominated.

"Females are more likely to be negatively impacted by technology than males."

Take the job of a translator. A decade ago, many of those at national service Polaron were doing work manually for clients by listening or reading to languages and translating this out into text and voice.

Now there's a plethora of software including voice recognition that does the basics of their job. Manypeople haveused a form of this in Google Translate.

"I think a lot of translators will become proofreaders," Polaron's projector coordinator Tristan Priolo told ABC News.

"It'll be checkers, as opposed to translators."

Seventy per cent of Polaron's translators are women. Some are older women who are less tech-savvy and able to keep up with the industry's fast-moving technological advances.

"Unfortunately, a lot of our (translators) they are falling behind because they're not able to keep up or they haven't chosen to keep up," Ms Priolo said.

"The industry is competitive. And they can't necessarily earn as much money from proofreading as they could have with translation.

"But that being said they could get a lot more done."

Pearson's analysis found that by 2032 more than 10 per cent of the work currently done by translators will be automated, and many will be in female-dominated industries.

Ms Priolo herself speaks Spanish and Italian. She trained at university in translation but is worried about specialising.

"I would love to be able to do that (job). But I worry that there is no stability," she said.

This all comes as the Federal Government is holding a jobs summit into the future of Australia's workforce.

Data already reported by ABC News has found artificial intelligence (AI) technology is forecast to replace as much as half of the work that is done today by 2030.

That's as roles once thought too creative to be consumed by AI such as illustration through to songwriting are also under threat from rapid technological advances.

New survey results also shared with ABC News by industry body CPA Australia,a local professional association for accountants,found that one in two workers don't believe they're being trained up for digital advances.

Pearson's data found that 13 per cent of an accountant's current work will have been automated by 2027.

Bookkeeping work will be even higher, at 20 per cent automated within those five years.

That's as artificial intelligence and software is deployed to do everything from statutory declarations through to complex receiverships.

Even the people who are making the software that's being deployed are noticing it's changing their work.

CPA Australia believes automation isn't actually a threat to job numbers. Its take is that the trend is freeing up accountants to do more complex work.

"Technology has automated manual and repetitive accounting tasks," CPA Australia spokesperson Dr Jane Rennie said.

"This has freed up professionals to do more strategic and creative work."

Vaibhav Namburi is the founder and CEO of emerging tech agency Five2One. His Sydney-based startup works on AI that is being used by financial technology companies to help them approve home and car loans.

"This was the job that was previously done by an analyst, or an underwriter or someone internally within the business that has now become completely automated," he said.

His company is alsodesigning software that can scour the internet for people's publicly available personal information, and then create personalised marketing messages.

"We basically scour the internet to find data points about someone and create a personalised message that looks like you've actually spent hours researching about them." Mr Namburi said.

"And it actually takes maybe a second or two. It's done by a machine."

Again, that's work that could have previously been done by copywriters.

MrNamburi himself has cut down roles in his company in this space, as artificial intelligence learns to do their roles.

"We've used to have six blog writers. That (has)now come down to three," he said.

"And those three just basically manage the work of six, because their jobs moved from manually writing stuff to just basically using AI to create content."

"I don't want you to be worried about your job. But it's definitely something you need to optimise for."

Pearson's data scientistSandya Baratha Raj also urges people in industries that are being automated to upskill.

"It's about being able to be proactive and understanding how we can use (our data) to make sure that people have the right skills for the future," she said.

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Women in industries under threat from AI and automation urged to 'upskill' - ABC News