Given the number of Democrats running around, mental health is a growth industry.
I think quite a few of these “safe” jobs are not so safe. The three I would highlight would be:
Creative Professionals
Educators and Trainers
Legal Professionals
“Replace” is a strong word. Will AI literally “replace” all workers in these and other fields? Certainly not. But AI can do a lot of the work that lawyers, teachers and artists get paid to do. Hollywood is dying for a lot of reason, but AI will be one of them. No one wants to hire actors. The computers can make actors for you. Yes, a creative human needs to help the computer create a movie. But fewer humans will be needed. Same for law offices, same for education. And other fields.
The last 2 are the only ones on that list I’d agree with. Most of them were already in the process of being replace by tech before AI showed up. Crafts and trades have been under assault by tech since the autoloom was invented. We see artists already under assault, sure an AI won’t make GOOD art, but the vast majority of professional art isn’t trying to be good, it’s slapping together a billboard. Shrinks? Just look at how many AI girlfriend apps there are, talk therapy is a cinch for AI, heck the first “AI” application was Eliza the “therapy” software from the mid 60s. Lawyers? Sure you’ll still need people for trial lawyers but 90% of being a lawyer is reading and siting, stuff we’re already using AI for.
Wow. So ludditian. I’m not an AI fan but I won’t cry if it replaces most of those professions.
“Educators and Trainers”
If a kid can use a cell phone, a kid can be taught by cell phone.
For many careers a person won’t lose their job to ‘AI’ but to another person who can use AI better.
“Mental Health Professionals”
Questions and answers are AI’s forte.
John McCarthy, widely recognized as the ‘father’ of AI, believed that Judges at law could be replaced by AI.
The C-suite suits will never let AI take their gravy train, but they’ll use it to kick many a person to the street...
It seems to me that all those careers are at risk of AI take-over the next 25 to 50 years. That means anybody under 40 needs to think big-picture about the threats to their livelihood in their lifetime. To me, it appears the article is written with maybe a five year horizon at most. Most workers have a career horizon much longer than five years.
Of course, the bigger, longer-range question is “What’s the need for puny humans once AI does everything?” Maybe that’s a 200 year question, or maybe 500 years from now.
But it sure is a fundamentally different question than a person living in 1000 AD pondering what life would be like in 1500 AD. Or a person alive in 1700 pondering what life would be like in 1800. For most of mankind’s existence, the future was almost always more of the past - drudgery, toil, and short lifespan. Then the Industrial Revolution started changing that and the change has been accelerating.
Sadly ignorant article.
In some cases much cheaper at 90% will be accepted, but in most cases AI support will lead to fewer jobs.
(Tradesmen for existing structures do have quite a bit of job security.)
“Hospitality and Service Roles”
We have ten vacated rooms.
Please check these pictures of the ten rooms.
The discount offered for a room is the amount off because we are asking you to clean up the room of your choice. These estimates are based initially on AI. Each time one of the ten is rented, we bump up the amounts of the remaining rooms by $1.
Your credit card or other payment means will be charged the amount of the discount given next time the room you choose gets rented.
I would say if you’re not physically turning a wrench you’re job is in jeopardy. If you are turning a wrench, you’re job is safe until AI figures out how to replace you with a robot, which will operate under the AI’s control, of course.
Good!
But AI seems to be partially replacing Google when one looks up an item there!
And AI has some roles in scientific research (e.g, protein structure). But AI-derived protein structures are not yet good enough for drug discovery!
The marketplace of voluntary buyers and sellers free from gov’t interference often has disruptions on the way to the attainment of wealth and prosperity.
In this case, AI presents possible new markets that may involve replacing more expensive labor with less expensive AI (otherwise if AI costs more than human labor, AI does not benefit the business). So AI should result in lower costs to the consumer.
These shifts in the marketplace happen periodically and cause some discomfort, but overall, the jobs that may go away are replaced by new jobs that maintain the replacements, in this case AI and the industry surrounding AI. Some new training may be needed. But without gov’t interference, more prosperity is in the works.
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If you’re looking for an AI-proof career in healthcare, consider becoming a surgeon, physical therapist, or radiologist.
These are going to be among the first displaced.
Seems to me a radiologist can be replaced by AI.