lose jobs to

きっとそうなのでしょうね。

Future economy: Many will lose jobs to computers

More and more jobs are likely to be automated - and hence, fewer people will be needed to do them

Workers wanting secure employment in coming decades will need skills that complement software applications, rather than compete with them.

Those who don't possess such skills face a nearly-50 percent chance of having their occupations replaced by automation, according to two University of Oxford professors who studied technology's impact on employment over the last 500 years.

The career fields seen losing the most jobs include not just relatively low-skilled occupations such as telemarketing and retail sales, but also high-paying positions now held by accountants, auditors, budget analysts, technical writers and insurance adjusters, among others.

All of those jobs face at least an 85 percent chance of being automated, say Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne in their 2013 paper, "The Future of Employment: How Susceptible are Jobs to Computerisation?"

The jobs most at risk all have one thing in common: they're in occupations "mainly consisting of tasks following well-defined procedures that can easily be performed by sophisticated algorithms," the pair wrote.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2014/03/21/software-tech-economy-work/6707457/

今まで気にもとめていませんでしたが、「〜に負ける」という意味はtoで表すことができるのですね。辞書を見ると、Talk to me.などというシンプルな例文があがっていて、toは「動作の対象」を表すとありました。ここではloseの対象がcomputerであった、「に対して負ける→奪われる」と発想していることが分かりました。みなさんには当たり前のことだと思いますが、私には発見でした。（Ume）