Autor and Acemoglu wrote about this in their paper 'Skills, Tasks and Technologies': 'Following, ALM, we refer to these procedural, rule-based activities to wh

Autor and Acemoglu wrote about this in their paper 'Skills, Tasks and Technologies': 'Following, ALM, we refer to these procedural, rule-based activities to which computers are currently well-suited as "routine" tasks. By routine, we do not mean mundane (e.g., washing dishes) but rather sufficiently well understood that the task can be fully specified as a series of instructions to be executed by a machine (e.g., adding a column of numbers). Routine tasks are characteristic of many middle-skilled cognitive and manual jobs, such as bookkeeping, clerical work, repetitive production, and monitoring jobs. Because the core job tasks of these occupations follow precise, well-understood procedures, they can be (and increasingly are) codified in computer software and performed by machines.'