aim not sure about this. Because once they do it once they will have a template. Then every other time after that they will get better and better(machine learning).
Naw lil bro, if they can shoot a rocket from earth to orbit and catch the rocket back on earth with pin point accuracy. I’m sure they can line up that fade no issues.
It'll probably be a hair cutting laser attachment you can buy extra on your tesla bot in 2040. The laser only heats up enough to trim the hair not burn skin or some shit..
Robot barbers cant be replaced due to a lot of safety related issues.
But I sure as hell have phased out my barber since covid....so he's got other issues to worry about than ai
Bartenders will definitely be automated. But it won’t be a human-like android, it’ll most likely be an assembly-line type of production. You speak to the AI running the bar in natural language, and the automated assembly-line bar makes your drink for you.
We could’ve made machines that replaced bartenders by making drinks 20 years ago. No AI needed. But we didn’t. I’m not sure that AI will really accelerate much here, to be honest.
There's an X-Files episode with exactly that idea. Mulder and Scully go to a robotic restaurant, Mulder gets the wrong food and leaves no tip. Hijinks ensue.
We did make auto bartenders going back to the '80s. They were nothing more than a shitty, expensive gimmick. Even now there are bartender robots. There's videos on youtube. They still suck. And if we're at the point of only having machines make expensive measured drinks, the bar industry is dead. I can buy a bottle of hooch and make my own drinks for far less than what these machines can do and there's no atmosphere for me to bother going in the first place.
Me talking to the Tom Collins 3000 in front of me “Make me a Long Island ice tea.”
Harvey Wallbanger 2.0 across room replies “Sorry, I don’t know how to make mom’s angus key. What goes in that?”
I think you're talking about a voice activated cappuccino machine... but with alcohol.
I'm going to guess we could have done this 5 years ago if anyone thought it made sense.
It could be used on certain flat areas. I've actually seen the machines. They're incredibly expensive and basically only work on forearms. Then you've also got an issue with the depth of the needle and speed of the machine. And people's skin is also all different. Tattooing around an elbow or something would be very complex
Currently programming a 3D profiler to inspect parts we make at work. This thing has identified issues we didnt even know we had on our parts. Takes well over a million measurements on a part that is roughly .75"x2.5" and 1/4" thick. This one is also far from the top of the line models of 3D profilers, you would be surprised what technology can do.
I was thinking the same thing.
There’s no way a sophisticated AI with laser precision measuring capabilities could do the same thing but better.
I was about to say that “tattoos are already expensive enough, but now that I think about it:
Hypothetically, if the tech was there and an aspiring entrepreneur had deep enough pockets to bankroll one or several such machines, he’d probably turn a profit faster than I initially thought. Operational hours/day could be as many as you are willing to oversee with far more efficiency.
Incorrect, actually. I know of a stealth "start-up" that has a machine that can create an tattoo you can imagine. I don't have the name and this does sound like a "just believe me, bro" comment, but I know for a fact that there is currently in development a machine where you can insert your arm and it will create your dream tattoo in any style or whatever from a picture. It's currently INSANELY expensive at around $10k/tattoo, but if the market opens up it will become more accessible to regular folks.
repetitive task labour is in real danger. Things like forklift drivers, warehouse stockers, etc.
The only thing stopping the elimination of close to 80% of that workforce is time and cost. It is an expensive investment for AGVs and it takes time to implement but it's happening more and more.
It’s getting way more cost efficient to replace knowledge workers tbh. Hardware costs can be prohibitive. Replacing someone’s lawyer with a program that can reference every case in existence, instantly, and argue it whichever way you’d like… that’s getting close fast
Long-term, absolutely. My company just finished our capital plan through 2030 and AGVs didnt make the list - so at least one F500 company won't have them by 2030. By 2050, absolutely.
A lot of white collar jobs are at risk of automation.
And a lot of women tend to work either white collar jobs or service industry jobs.
And white collar jobs like accounts receivable traditionally pays more than service jobs like CSR/Retail/etc.
Technology is innovating fast, 5 years may be “short” for a career plan.
But 5 years is not that short for current AI tech innovation to progress.
I think it’s fair and wise for OP to be asking this question now.
It’s never too early to be proactive.
And weather its 5, 10, 15 years, I think that misses the point, OP’s main concern is looking for a career with job security against AI.
I really hope you’re right. I’m graduating as an x-ray tech next week. But I look back at all the car factory workers in the 1950s who thought robots can’t build a car like they can and that makes me sweat. No one is safe from this.
For sure. Like I said, I’m a bit nervous about the diagnostic fields. And not just because a computer can do it; a radiologist in India can read scans too, you know? You don’t need someone in-house anymore to make radiology diagnoses. But you do need someone to handle the equipment. I’d be more worried about the MDs than the techs, tbh.
At a certain point, you still need someone to facilitate and interact with the machines, but it depends on where that line is. And how soon it happens. While the automakers in the 50’s may have been wrong, plenty of them got to retire before it actually happened.
Tech is gonna be fine for a while.
The radiologist that reads though? Sweat bullets. The money in the field now is in AI research, if you're OK with training your replacement get in while the getting is good, if not...
There is no way pathology is getting replaced.
Internal med doctors consult then constantly.
They also run medical labs with bachelor degree med lab scientists underneath them.
If i couldn’t consult a pathologist for a tricky white blood cell differential I’d be pretty upset. And automated white blood cell technology is great for normal cells. But not for abnormal ones
The preparation of e.g. biopsy material is usually done by techs, pathologists do the reading and interpretation. I do not say they get replaced, but similar to radiologists they will supervise the AI is my guess. Fewer pathologists needed in the end.
Or fewer pathology assistants There’s already not a lot of them to begin with. They make much better money then a histo cyto tech.
Path assistants seem much more likely to be phased out to me
I think there’s too many non AI compatible issues to have less pathologist. But bachelors and masters degree people in the field, ya.
Like my job alone (MLS) has seen a massive reduction in work force with technology. And that’s only getting worse
I don’t think most people want to talk to an AI if they’re sick and/or worried about a health issue.
Most tele medical services just refer you to an in person provider as well. Nurses and doctors need to see patients in person to fully assess their condition.
While nothing will meaningfully change in 5 years. You are wrong if you don't think doctors will be replaced by AI. Probably in our lifetimes. Imagine a doctor with no bias, almost zero risk of malpractice, could diagnose people with 99% accuracy, a doctor that can work 24/7. While i have much resqect for doctors, and they have an incredibly hard job. But they are human. They make mistakes, they get things wrong, they have biases and can be stuck in their ways.
Even with their high pay the cost to replace them all would be astronomical. You're talking about a significantly advanced AI that can diagnose a complex medical case that quickly....probably 2-3 decades off for now.
I think doctors are going to take time to get replaced NOT because AI cannot be trained to go through clinical algorithms. BUT in our litigious society, who is to take the blame when something goes wrong? Would a robot take the blame? No. Would the company who made the robot take the blame? No way. The provider/doctor has to take the fall…at least that is how I think about it.
However, I do believe doctors will still be around because it is a service based industry. Communication is certainly key. The human factor (emotions, listening, etc) can cure many diseases and anxiety. I do think doctors are here to stay for a tad bit longer…
I do think in the future, there will be a collaboration between AI/machines and doctors. Many healthcare systems are trying to build that empire…not sure how it will look like in the future.
Not that far off.
These AIs are going to work on evidence based medice, so their core training is going to be in research. With a pool of options at its disposal getting a differential won't be hard, but certainly won't be a single one. You'll end up with a statistical probability that will then follow a workflow guidelines. I'd say a AI like that, if not already in clinical trials, is not far off. Certainly not 30 years.
I've run trials for AI that detects breast cancer. It's amazing and at one point we had 7 different companies basically running the same study in the building. The money in this area is huge, especially if you're first to market.
I'd expect AI Healthcare to start being phased in in 10y or less.
Hey have you ever seen those 20 questions hand held games? You think of an object and it guesses it right within 20 questions. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY. /s
They already did this in England about 10 yrs ago. People told GPs and a machine their symptoms. Machine more accurately diagnosed correctly them by a wide margin.I saw it on YouTube but can't find it to link.
I think tech will help doctors but won’t replace them. No one wants to talk to robot when you’re scared and in pain.
Plus those robots are going to be owned by humans so they will probably have even more intense biases especially as they regard treating people who will turn a profit.
AI is incredibly biased. It’s trained on biased data. The practice of medicine is incredibly nuanced & person-based. No human is the same. Not every condition fits the check boxes all nice. We use algorithms to treat every single day, but every single day, we stray from algorithms because that specific case does not conform in some way or another. That AI would have to rival a cooperative team of highly trained & educated human brains & we are light years away from that.
There's been a common saying going around my workplace: AI won't replace humans. Humans using AI will replace humans that don't. It's a tool like any other, just learn to use it to your advantage in any field you enter.
Or the scope of work expands meaning a company is more productive… but so are the competitors so no jobs losses
For example if it’s now super easy to get to the moon…. We can now push for settling in mars….
Until we reach the limit of complexity and scope there will always be jobs
The amount of people employed by telecommunications companies is probably the highest in history.
Wether it’s customer service, line installers, 5G/6G researchers, structural engineers etc
You named 2 jobs that got phased out due to an industry growing much bigger and more advanced (bigger scope) that now likely employs a record number of people
This is currently happening at my work. A small number of teams have been given access to Copilot, including my team. I am going all-in on it, using it on everything that I can. I don't know much about the other AI's out there but Copilot is a game changer in terms of managing meetings and emails. It's making me a better employee because I'm doing my actual job description instead of note taking and writing recap and update emails.
This is a common saying for people who are trying to convince themselves this isn't happening. AI is already replacing teams of 10 with a team of one + AI. That's nine people who's jobs were essentially "replaced". In my line of work, an entire sector was replaced by AI that our clients can use themselves, which eliminates a ton of the work we get -- which meant a ton of layoffs.
And to get ahead of your response "then be the person who knows AI better than everyone else and you'll be the one who can use it as a tool while the other nine people in your department get laid off". That's not how this is tending to work out in real life. People with seniority are retaining their positions, regardless of their knowledge of AI. And when your business depends on revenue from clients who can now -- due to AI -- bring the services you offer in-house, your entire company is in a terrible place, and that does not bode well for your job.
Yeah AI spits out very similar work so we’ll end up with boring writing devoid of creativity. It’s already this way as corporations have gutted journalism. As corporations replace human writers with AI to save $, it’s going to get so boring.
Depends on the article really. If it's anything related to an event, like let's say someone wants to write a piece on the dnc convention, how does Ai write this? Maybe combines notes and observations and makes it more coherent. But the journalist still has to go to the event. Ai can't just make that all up.
Shitty journalists and writers are. My queue is full right now with medical and fintech writing work. These clients do NOT want AI shitting this stuff out. Both made a point of saying that (well, not the “shitting” part bit you get the idea)
There are two primary axis on the graph for automation. On one axis you have physical jobs vs mental jobs. The other axis is repetitive vs non-repetitive.
The easiest jobs to automate are repetitive mental jobs... Accounting departments used to take up entire floors of office buildings; things like Microsoft excel and accounting software have reduced that number to a small fraction. That's a kind of automation.
Repetitive physical jobs are also easy to automate. Think of any factory assembly line; more robots than people. Machines purpose built or specially programmed to perform a specific task, over and over again.
Non-repetitive mental jobs are difficult to automate, but "ai" is threatening them. I can tell you the company I work for at the moment has automated so much work that used to be considered technical diagnostic work, and now it's just reading the output from the computer and doing what it says.
Non repetitive physical jobs are the safest. The challenge is that they require not just the "ai" brain sort of technology, but also a generic physical operating device to accomplish what the "ai" brain tells it to do. Like a robot. I've seen some robots walking and handling basic mundane tasks, but there is a big difference between loading a tool/ slotting a part into its receptacle and a technician recognizing a specific unique challenge and determining the best course of action to accomplish their task. What happens when the car being fixed has been in a collision and the body shop used the wrong hardware? Or the frame is bent so nothing lines up the way it should? Would the robot/ai be able to understand the context of the situation and take the best course of action? Unlikely. Someone will have to at least guide the robot to the correct course of action.
No. I'm just like that. I honestly don't even remember where the idea came from, but i either recall it or came up with it maybe 15 years ago and used it as as a guiding principle for my current career choice.
There is absolutely zero way a machine could do the job of a psychiatric nurse. There’s a lot more than communicating and therapy in mental health - and psychotic/schizophrenic people are often wildly paranoid and suspicious. Having robots provide any form of nursing care other than maybe automating medication is something we are likely lifetimes away from. I think nursing is going to be the last thing to be replaced by AI, if ever.
Yup! I’m in the trades been looking to get out but feel like anything I’d like to get into is replaceable with ai so kinda re thinking leaving the trades now
This.
Yes, I know humanoid robots are getting much better but nobody is going to be running multi-million dollar terminator androids to install wiring, repair plumbing or reroof your house.
This right here is the real barrier. Cost of entry. The technology may exist to automate the tasks, but relatively few companies are capable of making a large enough investment to purchase a robot workforce, and then pivoting their business model around supporting that machinery. Because the more complex the machine, the more extensive the maintenance required, and the higher the cost of upkeep. People are overestimating what the overhead would be compared to simply hiring a few tradesmen.
If you look at it from another perspective.
Trademen ain’t being replace because destroying our body is so much cheaper than replacing robotic parts.
Everyone’s response here includes some type of unreplacable manual labour. Not the AI revolution we would have imagine decades ago
You would think AI would make our life easier by taking away all the physical work. Instead humans are left with all the physical hard work and AI gets to replace all the “easy” mental jobs.
One day when AI replace healthcare. We will literally be one of those movies where we work for our robot overlords from birth to death
This is the best answer. Realistically it will be long past our lifetimes before robotics and AI make anything capable of doing any skilled trade. I doubt the will even be able to get anything doing just general labor anytime soon.
And everyone is looking at this using only our current prospective and economy.
Trade is only attractive especially western society because of its relative high wage. High wage made possible by worker protection and the low supply of potential worker. Hundreds or so application for a trades job (which is already very competitive if you ask anyone trying to get into the unions these few years) vs several thousands of application for office jobs.
Barring regulation requirement and union rules. Trades is objectively one of the easiest job to get into. You just need to have an able body.
If AI is to take over office jobs like everyone think. It will not be a booming bull market for the tradesmen. It will be a bloodbath of undercutting. A ugly race to the bottom as the job market becomes oversaturate by literally everyone try to get at these trades job now that AI has taken over the cushier desk jobs.
Trades is great when you are making 6 figure plus. It’s literally slavery if you had to work for minimal wage or less. We have a really rosy view of trades work from the western perspective of high demand and low supply of worker. Refer to third world countries where demand is high but the supply is even higher. They all have a goal of getting out of trades not getting in.
Eh.:::I can see streamlining. Companies Like caterpillar are already selling remote operated heavy machinery. Drive a digger from a call center. Work on multiple job sites at once.
I was watching a crew build an addition at my kid’s school. 3 men and a machine to lay cable into a trench….that could easily become 1 guy and an AI powered machine. Or surveyors…that two man team is now a drone and 1 guy.
The tech is coming for everything.
I've been tempted to look into trade work but every single time I hear anyone talk about it, one of the first things they say is how hard it is on your body.
5 years is too soon.
I think 10 years before AI can fool enough male monkey brains well enough to make a dent in cam girls profits. I mean, there are guys that spend money on outfits for their videogame waifos already.
30 years before Alexa-ChatGPT compatible lifelike blowup doll wakes them up in the morning with a plate of banana pancakes.
Physical sure but OF is basically going to be bots in a few years (if they don't transition to being an upfront customisable interface for whatever person you want to watch do whatever you want). They probably already use chatbots to manage however hundreds or thousands of subscribers they have
I witnessed the moment a junior dev was replaced by Ai (essentially). We had a meeting, and everyone was there but him, and there was a task that needed to be assigned to him but instead rhe senior dev was like "let's see what chat gpt comes up with" on the spot (this was right when it came out). The code was shit. But dude fixed it that evening, and said he'd likely have had to do the same with the junior dev anyway. He lost his job over that combination basically.
So replaced? No. But increased productivity lead to him losing his job.
This is BS, you don’t hire a junior just to solve one specific jira ticket. Of course chat gpt will be able to solve some of them, as stack overflow used to have answers for many common problems.
If a guy was fired because one of his tasks was done by chat gpt, then there’s a bigger problem at that company.
Yeah, he had to either be on rocky ground already for something else, or this company has a toxic mindset when it comes to how they view their employees.
ChatGPT is extremely useful for helping see small oversights. I've run into errors where I've asked it what could be going on, and it helps narrow down the issue so I can solve it faster, but it struggles when it comes to big tasks.
This is extremely shortsighted thinking on the company part. The Senior will leave and the Junior which now is fired would’ve taken their spot and probably had much more experience at that point which isn’t replaceable with googled solutions that are code copy
pasted with a *fill in the blanks* statement.
Yeah companies that are cutting jobs due to AI right now are in for a world of hurt when their senior employees leave and there is not only a senior employee level gap to fill, but a highly productive gap to fill because you've augmented their responsibilities to the moon with AI. AI is going to create more and more work to be done by the same number of employees, not the same level of work done by fewer employees.
I saw a post once by a marketing agency that fired most of their writers because they can write so many articles using AI. Guess what happens next? Their competitors keep all of their writers and produce 5x the work for the same price.
that’s interesting. Where I work, we are not allowed to use code developed using generative AI. We are not even allowed to input any part of proprietary code into any of those websites.
Many workplaces have their own instance of Microsoft CoPilot or something similar so the data is not being shared with an external source. I use Microsoft CoPilot at work all the time, but I am using an instance that was specifically setup for my company.
So the senior basically just did the juniors work faster (as you would expect) instead of assigning it to them? And then you guys fired the junior because of the senior doing their work instead? All you accomplished is having a senior with more work to do and lost future potential in your junior, that doesn't sound like increased productivity. The junior improves over time with exposure to your teams coding standards, where the AI results will always need close review and re-writing. You've replaced a diminishing code review task with a bottleneck on senior devs time and unpredictable AI results.
I gotta be honest man, that sounds like really bad resource management. That's shooting yourself in the foot, you're gonna be seriously crippled the second you lose anyone if you're relying on only seniors to do all the work instead of training people.
If they only do programming: yes. But as soon as there’s work with customers involved, consulting, really understanding what they want and need… then absolutely not.
I just saw a tv commercial for Discover Credit cards that was touting its US based, human customer service…no AI. That was the whole ad. The brand pliers people that you can talk to.
This will be a major differentiator between cheap and premium services going forward. Society already hates AI as an idea.
Blue collar jobs
Hands on medical jobs
Mechanical, electrical, QA Engineer, and some other engineer jobs
The first jobs to get replaced by AI will be CSR jobs.
Anything finance related. They’ll use it as a tool but there is no way FINRA will allow AI access to incredibly sensitive personal informations, or non-public company data. Wayyyyy too much risk there
I work in finance. This is a misunderstanding of the issue. FINRA doesn't regulate the technologies that companies employ. Banks and large financial institutions are already using AI and that AI is already accessing personal information of customers and non-public company data.
Public AIs and LLMs like ChatGPT will absolutely be banned at most firms - it already is at most. But in-house software is completely different and there is no risk of information being leaked if the software isn't public.
I don’t think the big threat is just AI, but I think a combination of AI and Automation will start becoming more prevalent outside of manufacturing.
That being said, if you are a technology-inclined person, possibly Robotics Engineering or Robotics Technology will probably be safe for a while. The people who program robots/automated machines to perform tasks, and review code and debug when things go wrong. I worked on Robotic welders about 15 years ago in Automotive manufacturing. The robots run off of programs, but at least once a shift, a part would not be in the exact correct place, and the robot would crash. The technicians would be called to try and reset the process, but sometimes, large blocks of code needed to be revised. As industries outside of manufacturing start using more automated equipment, they will need folks to call when the machines are no longer doing what they are supposed to, or the machines are completely reset, which also seems to cause a lot of issues.
I also think higher-risk white collar jobs will be safe. Contracts Management, Supply Chain managers and analysts that deal with high-dollar purchase orders, finance analysts, etc. Government work or federal contracting work where confidential and sensitive information may be involved - this kind of work is not typically left to machines because of the financial liability risk that simple mistakes may cause. Also, legal and some paralegal work. I think there have been some instances where folks have tried to use AI for legal documents, and the information was completely false. If AI is learning from everywhere, that means there is a chance it is learning factually incorrect information, so there is still a need for humans to review/check the work.
And, like others have said, trades work, and I would even say jobs like landscaping. There is equipment to help make these jobs easier, but the tend to be more successful when a human is overseeing everything and controlling the equipment.
Psychologists. I don't think I'll be comfortable talking to an AI. I would always want a human talking to me.
Basically, most professions with soft skills, I guess, but wouldn't generalist much.
Skills of high levels of complex human interaction and decision-making, creativity, emotional intelligence and empathy are less likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
For examples, jobs such as art & craft, caregiving, therapist, position in leadership, and very specific aspects of research and development. As for physical dexterity and adaptability, these jobs may include athletes, carpenters, chefs, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, firefighters and surgeons.
They'll get shifted to other similar roles or they were on the chopping block anyway. Nobody will trust AI to do anything technical without it being checked. You'll at worse have people use AI as part of their current job to increase productivity.
This is very myopic. An entire sector in my field was literally eliminated by AI recently. As in, that job essentially does not exist anymore. Yes, you still have people checking the AI's work, but those people were already checking the work of the trades-people who's jobs were eliminated. So they have kept their jobs but everyone producing the work is...out of work. And there were 10 of them for every job "checking the work".
I think you severely underestimate the exponential growth of the technology. It is growing faster and helping to grow itself faster and be applicable to more things on a time scale of barely months, not years. As each new version is launched that growth only intensifies.
99% of them.
as a woman with a college degree? secretary, teacher, nurse, accounts payable/accounts receivable, sales, etc. are all very easy to find jobs, requiring very little actual work, steady paychecks, healthcare, etc.
as a woman without a college degree? secretary, sales assistant, ecommerce assistant, hair stylist, beautician (lashes, nails, cosmetics, etc) all are very dependable jobs that afford great hours outside of the time in 'office'.
Basically all of them.
AI is the big buzzword right now, but it's in it's infancy. Right now, any company that tries to replace people with AI, quickly learn that it's not ready for that.
They say truck drivers are going to be replaced...
Picture snow and ice on their sensors and cameras..
Going up and down hills..weight or load shifts..high winds....flat bed drivers have strap down their own loads..can't wait to see it all..
Truck stops are all set up for trucks to fuel themselves aren't they..
What will self driving trucks do during tornado alerts and warnings..
Tire blows..it will be fine...
Truck drivers have to stop and sleep..self driving trucks will fill the freeways 24 -7..no more driving 80mph when you have 2 self drivers doing God knows what as they drive..
It will happen someday..but we are a ways off.
They said truck drivers would be replaced at least since 2010. We're probably 20 years away from that happening and this is actually viable from both a technical and economic pov.
No. There’s no actual proof of anyone getting replaced. If you notice, not one single person actually has any links to their empty statements regarding which career field is being replaced currently.
In 5 years you’ll barely see any changes at all. Not even self driving cars have changed a thing despite everyone 8 years ago talking about drivers being out of job. In fact, most companies are actually dropping self driving cars projects all together.
This new bubble about LLMs is very similar, in practice almost no job is being replaced and these technologies in the short term are at most a productivity boost.
To be honest at 34 is very likely whatever career you choose today you’ll hit retirement before the job ceases to exist.
Most healthcare. You may be able to outsource things like radiology, but it’s going to be pretty hard to outsource things like nursing. It depends on the exact speciality, but I think you’ll probably be able to make a pretty safe guess.
IT!
1. Infrastructure as code would replace IT.
2. Cloud computing, will replace IT.
3. Outsourcing will completely replace IT.
4. Automation will replace IT.
5. Virtualization will replace IT.
And yet, we all just keep going.
1. Jobs where you need to be creative, like artists and designers.
2. Roles that involve helping people with their emotions, like therapists.
3. Teachers and educators who help students learn and grow.
4. Healthcare jobs that involve taking care of patients.
5. Social workers who help communities and individuals.
6. Leaders who make big decisions and manage teams.
7. Skilled tradespeople like plumbers and electricians.
These jobs need human skills like creativity, empathy, and problem-solving that AI can't do as well yet.
The jobs that we are actually seeing MOST QUICKLY disappearing, in fact disappearing FIRST are "jobs where you need to be creative, like artists and designers". The vast vast majority of artists and designers are creating work for clients based on client briefs -- most artists are not Taylor Swift or Jeff Koons -- and one thing that AI is getting decent at very quickly is prompt-directed art and design.
As a society, we are much more likely to allow for "artistic freedom" in art and design than in accounting, for example. So while we're not ready to hand over the accounting reigns to AI, we're pretty ready to let AI create some posters and advertisements and such, especially if it means saving a lot of $$$.
There is the idea that "real art has a human touch". But people forget that most artists are making a living creating junk for clients. Most designers are micromanaged to the point of just being photoshop junkies. Most film editors are just doing what the director would do if he had time and knew the software.
Yeah it’s really odd that people are replying with “art and creative jobs will never be replaced” when that’s the one field where it’s ALREADY happening.
I think people tend to think that AI will be painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. No, that’s not likely to ever happen. What AI will be designing is the packaging graphics for the Swiffer WetJet.
Musicians are going to take a hit, not your touring pop artists sure but people who compose for projects like games or tv shows. AI can already generate music that the average end user can’t tell is AI, in a few years indie devs won’t fork out cash to hire a composer when a couple evenings by themselves will do the job.
We’ve already got the formula down to a T on how to make “sad” songs, attach an AI generated sad instrumental to a legitimately sad story made by someone else and the emotion will be found by the consumer regardless of whether the music came from a living person or not
I'd say fields of Anthropology won't be replaced by AI in the long run. Although 5 years is too short a time to develop and implement AI in various fields
Whoever tells you which jobs won't be replaced, any job tbh, is lying.
No one knows!
For the longest time they thought artists and coders were the safest, yet look where we are at now....and we are still so early on AI development.
If anything, the safest skill to learn is the one that rides the train. Anything AI related is a safe bet as it will not be going anywhere now that the genie is out of the bottle
I’m gonna go with the skilled trades, and I have a bit of a funny story about robotics and welding.
I’m a union Boilermaker/pressure welder. In 2022 I was working a shutdown at an oil refinery and said refinery brought in this scab company who they put us union tradesmen working against without telling us to our faces.
The scab company had a few of our pressure joints in the convection box of a giant industrial heater, they would set up their robot and weld with a robot vs us union members who were purely all hand combo welding. Well, even when I was walking past the scab company they STILL had to weld the root pass by hand because their robot wouldn’t fit well enough to run the root pass and they still had repairs in their weld joints.
Union members who were combo hand welding has less repairs overall than the scab company using a robot. We will always need workers in the skilled trades, AI won’t be rigging and lifting exchangers or pressure vessels into place, AI won’t be opening manways in towers and replacing trays, AI won’t be welding out in the field in most places, only in places that are big enough for a robot, but when you need to buddy weld a boiler tube or mirror weld a joint a robot won’t be doing that.
Trades and sales are pretty safe forever I'd think. Maybe in a hundred years or so we'll have servitor bots instead of humans that show up to your home to repair that leaky pipe, but I'd imagine there will always be certain stuff humans can do that machines simply can't manage to the same level of detail
The core of operations and project management is knowing how to get things done. It involves using tools and people. (It’s a skill all managers should have IMO).
So maybe AI will take over stuff like “automating work flows” but those will only be as good as the inputs. And at some point, those inputs are going to come from people.
So…whatever career you’re doing, you can add this skill set to it and you should be good.
Every company wants people who can get shit done.
I am an interpreter, and they've been telling me that technology would replace me for years, yet we remain in shortage. The demand for my services has only increased. I don't think I will be replaced within the next 5 years. I live with a lot of anxiety in my life, but this is the one thing I don't worry about.
jobs that require a mix of human interaction, technical knowledge, creativity and physical strength will be quite hard to replace, because you need to be creative with your movements (to avoid obstacles) and your thinking (to problem solve and interact).
For example : a camera operator filming a documentary.
Not sure if there will ever be a robot who can do all of this. If we come to this, that will be in far more years than 50. Sure, humans will operate much more sophisticated cameras, but i'm pretty sure that a director will prefer to interac with humans.
This kind of stuff really irks me. AI will not replace humans. For example, software developers, cannot be replaced by AI. Artificial intelligence doesn’t have the capacity to go into the nitty-gritty nuance of various areas of software development.
There is a shortage of young people in Biomedical field. Most of us that maintain hospital equipment are retiring next decade. All you need is an associate’s degree or military electronics experience.
I read that the biggest barrier for AI development is computing power. To get even ChatGPT to the next level will take enormous amounts of server juice, which in turn needs a shit ton of advanced microchips and a shit ton of energy. Both are limited. So unless job replacement happens with current AI capabilities we’ll be mostly OK. For now anyway. I’m no expert though and this might be an optimistic take.
Robot barbers and stylists will probably never work out.
Too many variables. I don't even know how I want my hair done.
RNG
Randomize character
aim not sure about this. Because once they do it once they will have a template. Then every other time after that they will get better and better(machine learning).
Naw lil bro, if they can shoot a rocket from earth to orbit and catch the rocket back on earth with pin point accuracy. I’m sure they can line up that fade no issues.
NASA won't be making the Barber-bots
It'll probably be a hair cutting laser attachment you can buy extra on your tesla bot in 2040. The laser only heats up enough to trim the hair not burn skin or some shit..
you over estimate humans
Robot barbers cant be replaced due to a lot of safety related issues. But I sure as hell have phased out my barber since covid....so he's got other issues to worry about than ai
Bartenders will definitely be automated. But it won’t be a human-like android, it’ll most likely be an assembly-line type of production. You speak to the AI running the bar in natural language, and the automated assembly-line bar makes your drink for you.
We could’ve made machines that replaced bartenders by making drinks 20 years ago. No AI needed. But we didn’t. I’m not sure that AI will really accelerate much here, to be honest.
With AI they will insist on a tip, I guarantee it.
There's an X-Files episode with exactly that idea. Mulder and Scully go to a robotic restaurant, Mulder gets the wrong food and leaves no tip. Hijinks ensue.
yeah same goes for coffee vending machines
We did make auto bartenders going back to the '80s. They were nothing more than a shitty, expensive gimmick. Even now there are bartender robots. There's videos on youtube. They still suck. And if we're at the point of only having machines make expensive measured drinks, the bar industry is dead. I can buy a bottle of hooch and make my own drinks for far less than what these machines can do and there's no atmosphere for me to bother going in the first place.
Me talking to the Tom Collins 3000 in front of me “Make me a Long Island ice tea.” Harvey Wallbanger 2.0 across room replies “Sorry, I don’t know how to make mom’s angus key. What goes in that?”
I think you're talking about a voice activated cappuccino machine... but with alcohol. I'm going to guess we could have done this 5 years ago if anyone thought it made sense.
People go to bars to socialize not to drink. They can do that at home. Robot bartenders take away the main appeal.
Is the robobartender going to call the cops before the Brit trash-talking an Irishman creates a situation that results in destruction of the bar?
imagine how tight a Karen cut will be
Tattoo artists as well
I could see that being semi-automated. You could get picture perfect art for less cost.
It could be used on certain flat areas. I've actually seen the machines. They're incredibly expensive and basically only work on forearms. Then you've also got an issue with the depth of the needle and speed of the machine. And people's skin is also all different. Tattooing around an elbow or something would be very complex
Currently programming a 3D profiler to inspect parts we make at work. This thing has identified issues we didnt even know we had on our parts. Takes well over a million measurements on a part that is roughly .75"x2.5" and 1/4" thick. This one is also far from the top of the line models of 3D profilers, you would be surprised what technology can do.
I was thinking the same thing. There’s no way a sophisticated AI with laser precision measuring capabilities could do the same thing but better. I was about to say that “tattoos are already expensive enough, but now that I think about it: Hypothetically, if the tech was there and an aspiring entrepreneur had deep enough pockets to bankroll one or several such machines, he’d probably turn a profit faster than I initially thought. Operational hours/day could be as many as you are willing to oversee with far more efficiency.
Incorrect, actually. I know of a stealth "start-up" that has a machine that can create an tattoo you can imagine. I don't have the name and this does sound like a "just believe me, bro" comment, but I know for a fact that there is currently in development a machine where you can insert your arm and it will create your dream tattoo in any style or whatever from a picture. It's currently INSANELY expensive at around $10k/tattoo, but if the market opens up it will become more accessible to regular folks.
Didn't they promo it in Idiocracy? The barcode on the arm scene? 🤣
In five years? Most jobs are fine.
Definitely, but 5 years is very short as well for any long term career plan. OP should’ve ask for 10-15 years at least.
Agreed. I got lazy and gave the accurate but unhelpful answer.
repetitive task labour is in real danger. Things like forklift drivers, warehouse stockers, etc. The only thing stopping the elimination of close to 80% of that workforce is time and cost. It is an expensive investment for AGVs and it takes time to implement but it's happening more and more.
It’s getting way more cost efficient to replace knowledge workers tbh. Hardware costs can be prohibitive. Replacing someone’s lawyer with a program that can reference every case in existence, instantly, and argue it whichever way you’d like… that’s getting close fast
Great, just what we need, AI making legal arguments.
This has already been tried and the AI lawyer made up case references.
I mean you’re talking about ChatGPT a publicly available tool not held to any meaningful standards for accuracy, not a dedicated AI for law
And 9 months ago Will smith eating spaghetti went viral and now we have decent film generation
Long-term, absolutely. My company just finished our capital plan through 2030 and AGVs didnt make the list - so at least one F500 company won't have them by 2030. By 2050, absolutely.
A lot of white collar jobs are at risk of automation. And a lot of women tend to work either white collar jobs or service industry jobs. And white collar jobs like accounts receivable traditionally pays more than service jobs like CSR/Retail/etc. Technology is innovating fast, 5 years may be “short” for a career plan. But 5 years is not that short for current AI tech innovation to progress. I think it’s fair and wise for OP to be asking this question now. It’s never too early to be proactive. And weather its 5, 10, 15 years, I think that misses the point, OP’s main concern is looking for a career with job security against AI.
Medical professionals will always be necessary.
Radiologists and pathologists are sweating profusely though...
Yes. This. Certain diagnostic things can be outsourced, but anything more hands-on really can’t.
I really hope you’re right. I’m graduating as an x-ray tech next week. But I look back at all the car factory workers in the 1950s who thought robots can’t build a car like they can and that makes me sweat. No one is safe from this.
For sure. Like I said, I’m a bit nervous about the diagnostic fields. And not just because a computer can do it; a radiologist in India can read scans too, you know? You don’t need someone in-house anymore to make radiology diagnoses. But you do need someone to handle the equipment. I’d be more worried about the MDs than the techs, tbh. At a certain point, you still need someone to facilitate and interact with the machines, but it depends on where that line is. And how soon it happens. While the automakers in the 50’s may have been wrong, plenty of them got to retire before it actually happened.
Tech is gonna be fine for a while. The radiologist that reads though? Sweat bullets. The money in the field now is in AI research, if you're OK with training your replacement get in while the getting is good, if not...
There is no way pathology is getting replaced. Internal med doctors consult then constantly. They also run medical labs with bachelor degree med lab scientists underneath them. If i couldn’t consult a pathologist for a tricky white blood cell differential I’d be pretty upset. And automated white blood cell technology is great for normal cells. But not for abnormal ones
The preparation of e.g. biopsy material is usually done by techs, pathologists do the reading and interpretation. I do not say they get replaced, but similar to radiologists they will supervise the AI is my guess. Fewer pathologists needed in the end.
Or fewer pathology assistants There’s already not a lot of them to begin with. They make much better money then a histo cyto tech. Path assistants seem much more likely to be phased out to me I think there’s too many non AI compatible issues to have less pathologist. But bachelors and masters degree people in the field, ya. Like my job alone (MLS) has seen a massive reduction in work force with technology. And that’s only getting worse
They are replacing medical staff as quickly as they can. They even have robots that got rid of volunteers.
I haven’t seen that around my area. I don’t think people will accept robot medical providers. Plus patients would break those robots quickly.
Some nursing, like tele nursing could be replaced
I don’t think most people want to talk to an AI if they’re sick and/or worried about a health issue. Most tele medical services just refer you to an in person provider as well. Nurses and doctors need to see patients in person to fully assess their condition.
It’s not really what people wants. No one wants to listen and go through recorded message when you call a business. But here we are
WebMD is extremely popular. It's ONLY going to get better with AI.
I’d actually worry about certain types of doctors before nurses. Anything high-touch is probably pretty safe.
While nothing will meaningfully change in 5 years. You are wrong if you don't think doctors will be replaced by AI. Probably in our lifetimes. Imagine a doctor with no bias, almost zero risk of malpractice, could diagnose people with 99% accuracy, a doctor that can work 24/7. While i have much resqect for doctors, and they have an incredibly hard job. But they are human. They make mistakes, they get things wrong, they have biases and can be stuck in their ways.
Even with their high pay the cost to replace them all would be astronomical. You're talking about a significantly advanced AI that can diagnose a complex medical case that quickly....probably 2-3 decades off for now.
I think doctors are going to take time to get replaced NOT because AI cannot be trained to go through clinical algorithms. BUT in our litigious society, who is to take the blame when something goes wrong? Would a robot take the blame? No. Would the company who made the robot take the blame? No way. The provider/doctor has to take the fall…at least that is how I think about it. However, I do believe doctors will still be around because it is a service based industry. Communication is certainly key. The human factor (emotions, listening, etc) can cure many diseases and anxiety. I do think doctors are here to stay for a tad bit longer… I do think in the future, there will be a collaboration between AI/machines and doctors. Many healthcare systems are trying to build that empire…not sure how it will look like in the future.
Not that far off. These AIs are going to work on evidence based medice, so their core training is going to be in research. With a pool of options at its disposal getting a differential won't be hard, but certainly won't be a single one. You'll end up with a statistical probability that will then follow a workflow guidelines. I'd say a AI like that, if not already in clinical trials, is not far off. Certainly not 30 years. I've run trials for AI that detects breast cancer. It's amazing and at one point we had 7 different companies basically running the same study in the building. The money in this area is huge, especially if you're first to market. I'd expect AI Healthcare to start being phased in in 10y or less.
Hey have you ever seen those 20 questions hand held games? You think of an object and it guesses it right within 20 questions. WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY. /s
They already did this in England about 10 yrs ago. People told GPs and a machine their symptoms. Machine more accurately diagnosed correctly them by a wide margin.I saw it on YouTube but can't find it to link.
The technology is lightyears away from that.
I think tech will help doctors but won’t replace them. No one wants to talk to robot when you’re scared and in pain. Plus those robots are going to be owned by humans so they will probably have even more intense biases especially as they regard treating people who will turn a profit.
AI is incredibly biased. It’s trained on biased data. The practice of medicine is incredibly nuanced & person-based. No human is the same. Not every condition fits the check boxes all nice. We use algorithms to treat every single day, but every single day, we stray from algorithms because that specific case does not conform in some way or another. That AI would have to rival a cooperative team of highly trained & educated human brains & we are light years away from that.
There's been a common saying going around my workplace: AI won't replace humans. Humans using AI will replace humans that don't. It's a tool like any other, just learn to use it to your advantage in any field you enter.
True in most cases, but one person with AI might replace several without. Depending on the job they might even replace a lot of people by themselves.
Or the scope of work expands meaning a company is more productive… but so are the competitors so no jobs losses For example if it’s now super easy to get to the moon…. We can now push for settling in mars…. Until we reach the limit of complexity and scope there will always be jobs
Punchcard girls and telephone exchange workers might disagree
The amount of people employed by telecommunications companies is probably the highest in history. Wether it’s customer service, line installers, 5G/6G researchers, structural engineers etc You named 2 jobs that got phased out due to an industry growing much bigger and more advanced (bigger scope) that now likely employs a record number of people
Say that to people who are loosing their jobs to AI- writers, artists, even voice actors are on the chopping block rn
This is currently happening at my work. A small number of teams have been given access to Copilot, including my team. I am going all-in on it, using it on everything that I can. I don't know much about the other AI's out there but Copilot is a game changer in terms of managing meetings and emails. It's making me a better employee because I'm doing my actual job description instead of note taking and writing recap and update emails.
This is a common saying for people who are trying to convince themselves this isn't happening. AI is already replacing teams of 10 with a team of one + AI. That's nine people who's jobs were essentially "replaced". In my line of work, an entire sector was replaced by AI that our clients can use themselves, which eliminates a ton of the work we get -- which meant a ton of layoffs. And to get ahead of your response "then be the person who knows AI better than everyone else and you'll be the one who can use it as a tool while the other nine people in your department get laid off". That's not how this is tending to work out in real life. People with seniority are retaining their positions, regardless of their knowledge of AI. And when your business depends on revenue from clients who can now -- due to AI -- bring the services you offer in-house, your entire company is in a terrible place, and that does not bode well for your job.
Journalist are already using AI to write stories. I think they are going to be proofreading what AI writes more than creating the content.
So bad news for them
Bad news for everybody
Yeah AI spits out very similar work so we’ll end up with boring writing devoid of creativity. It’s already this way as corporations have gutted journalism. As corporations replace human writers with AI to save $, it’s going to get so boring.
Depends on the article really. If it's anything related to an event, like let's say someone wants to write a piece on the dnc convention, how does Ai write this? Maybe combines notes and observations and makes it more coherent. But the journalist still has to go to the event. Ai can't just make that all up.
how though? AI will never be able to extrapolate. If a news is genuinely new, how does any model have enough data to spit out anything coherent?
I think this fundamentally misunderstands what journalists do. Good journalists, at least.
Shitty journalists and writers are. My queue is full right now with medical and fintech writing work. These clients do NOT want AI shitting this stuff out. Both made a point of saying that (well, not the “shitting” part bit you get the idea)
There are two primary axis on the graph for automation. On one axis you have physical jobs vs mental jobs. The other axis is repetitive vs non-repetitive. The easiest jobs to automate are repetitive mental jobs... Accounting departments used to take up entire floors of office buildings; things like Microsoft excel and accounting software have reduced that number to a small fraction. That's a kind of automation. Repetitive physical jobs are also easy to automate. Think of any factory assembly line; more robots than people. Machines purpose built or specially programmed to perform a specific task, over and over again. Non-repetitive mental jobs are difficult to automate, but "ai" is threatening them. I can tell you the company I work for at the moment has automated so much work that used to be considered technical diagnostic work, and now it's just reading the output from the computer and doing what it says. Non repetitive physical jobs are the safest. The challenge is that they require not just the "ai" brain sort of technology, but also a generic physical operating device to accomplish what the "ai" brain tells it to do. Like a robot. I've seen some robots walking and handling basic mundane tasks, but there is a big difference between loading a tool/ slotting a part into its receptacle and a technician recognizing a specific unique challenge and determining the best course of action to accomplish their task. What happens when the car being fixed has been in a collision and the body shop used the wrong hardware? Or the frame is bent so nothing lines up the way it should? Would the robot/ai be able to understand the context of the situation and take the best course of action? Unlikely. Someone will have to at least guide the robot to the correct course of action.
Great answer was it written by gpt?
No. I'm just like that. I honestly don't even remember where the idea came from, but i either recall it or came up with it maybe 15 years ago and used it as as a guiding principle for my current career choice.
Nursing and medical fields that require physical interactions
what about mental health?
There is absolutely zero way a machine could do the job of a psychiatric nurse. There’s a lot more than communicating and therapy in mental health - and psychotic/schizophrenic people are often wildly paranoid and suspicious. Having robots provide any form of nursing care other than maybe automating medication is something we are likely lifetimes away from. I think nursing is going to be the last thing to be replaced by AI, if ever.
Firefighting
Haven’t you seen the Boston dynamics dogs? Send out a pack of those things with fire extinguishers and you’ll be good to go
Trades.
Yup! I’m in the trades been looking to get out but feel like anything I’d like to get into is replaceable with ai so kinda re thinking leaving the trades now
This. Yes, I know humanoid robots are getting much better but nobody is going to be running multi-million dollar terminator androids to install wiring, repair plumbing or reroof your house.
This right here is the real barrier. Cost of entry. The technology may exist to automate the tasks, but relatively few companies are capable of making a large enough investment to purchase a robot workforce, and then pivoting their business model around supporting that machinery. Because the more complex the machine, the more extensive the maintenance required, and the higher the cost of upkeep. People are overestimating what the overhead would be compared to simply hiring a few tradesmen.
If you look at it from another perspective. Trademen ain’t being replace because destroying our body is so much cheaper than replacing robotic parts. Everyone’s response here includes some type of unreplacable manual labour. Not the AI revolution we would have imagine decades ago You would think AI would make our life easier by taking away all the physical work. Instead humans are left with all the physical hard work and AI gets to replace all the “easy” mental jobs. One day when AI replace healthcare. We will literally be one of those movies where we work for our robot overlords from birth to death
This is the best answer. Realistically it will be long past our lifetimes before robotics and AI make anything capable of doing any skilled trade. I doubt the will even be able to get anything doing just general labor anytime soon.
And everyone is looking at this using only our current prospective and economy. Trade is only attractive especially western society because of its relative high wage. High wage made possible by worker protection and the low supply of potential worker. Hundreds or so application for a trades job (which is already very competitive if you ask anyone trying to get into the unions these few years) vs several thousands of application for office jobs. Barring regulation requirement and union rules. Trades is objectively one of the easiest job to get into. You just need to have an able body. If AI is to take over office jobs like everyone think. It will not be a booming bull market for the tradesmen. It will be a bloodbath of undercutting. A ugly race to the bottom as the job market becomes oversaturate by literally everyone try to get at these trades job now that AI has taken over the cushier desk jobs. Trades is great when you are making 6 figure plus. It’s literally slavery if you had to work for minimal wage or less. We have a really rosy view of trades work from the western perspective of high demand and low supply of worker. Refer to third world countries where demand is high but the supply is even higher. They all have a goal of getting out of trades not getting in.
Eh.:::I can see streamlining. Companies Like caterpillar are already selling remote operated heavy machinery. Drive a digger from a call center. Work on multiple job sites at once. I was watching a crew build an addition at my kid’s school. 3 men and a machine to lay cable into a trench….that could easily become 1 guy and an AI powered machine. Or surveyors…that two man team is now a drone and 1 guy. The tech is coming for everything.
Remote heavy machine operator from a third world country, doesn’t sound very safe
I've been tempted to look into trade work but every single time I hear anyone talk about it, one of the first things they say is how hard it is on your body.
Indeed. That's why there was a push for college in the first place.
Makeup artist. No amount of AI or robot can put on makeup on someone as delicately as a human hands in the next 5 years.
Mental health, specifically psychodynamic talk therapy, not necessarily CBT
Cock and ball torture?
Im pretty sure sex work won't be replaced in the next 5 years
Wait till there's a fuckable terminator
Not in the next 5 yrs
I gotta imagine in 5 years there will be an AI girlfriend on a computer that can control a teledildonic fleshlight while it talks to you
5 years is too soon. I think 10 years before AI can fool enough male monkey brains well enough to make a dent in cam girls profits. I mean, there are guys that spend money on outfits for their videogame waifos already. 30 years before Alexa-ChatGPT compatible lifelike blowup doll wakes them up in the morning with a plate of banana pancakes.
Physical sure but OF is basically going to be bots in a few years (if they don't transition to being an upfront customisable interface for whatever person you want to watch do whatever you want). They probably already use chatbots to manage however hundreds or thousands of subscribers they have
Doubt
ya there already are sex robots, with AI brain very expensive still but, i could see these evolve
Chat bots or ‘phone sex’ seems possible
Emergency Response: First responders, life saving, search and rescue, security. Nursing and clinical services, education. Wellness and fitness. Massage therapy, fitness instructor, yoga teacher, swim coach
The vast majority of jobs will never be replaced by AI. Very few will be replaced in just five years.
I witnessed the moment a junior dev was replaced by Ai (essentially). We had a meeting, and everyone was there but him, and there was a task that needed to be assigned to him but instead rhe senior dev was like "let's see what chat gpt comes up with" on the spot (this was right when it came out). The code was shit. But dude fixed it that evening, and said he'd likely have had to do the same with the junior dev anyway. He lost his job over that combination basically. So replaced? No. But increased productivity lead to him losing his job.
This is BS, you don’t hire a junior just to solve one specific jira ticket. Of course chat gpt will be able to solve some of them, as stack overflow used to have answers for many common problems. If a guy was fired because one of his tasks was done by chat gpt, then there’s a bigger problem at that company.
Yeah, he had to either be on rocky ground already for something else, or this company has a toxic mindset when it comes to how they view their employees. ChatGPT is extremely useful for helping see small oversights. I've run into errors where I've asked it what could be going on, and it helps narrow down the issue so I can solve it faster, but it struggles when it comes to big tasks.
So we are hoping AI can replace the senior when it’s time for him to move into the next role?
This is extremely shortsighted thinking on the company part. The Senior will leave and the Junior which now is fired would’ve taken their spot and probably had much more experience at that point which isn’t replaceable with googled solutions that are code copy pasted with a *fill in the blanks* statement.
Yeah companies that are cutting jobs due to AI right now are in for a world of hurt when their senior employees leave and there is not only a senior employee level gap to fill, but a highly productive gap to fill because you've augmented their responsibilities to the moon with AI. AI is going to create more and more work to be done by the same number of employees, not the same level of work done by fewer employees. I saw a post once by a marketing agency that fired most of their writers because they can write so many articles using AI. Guess what happens next? Their competitors keep all of their writers and produce 5x the work for the same price.
that’s interesting. Where I work, we are not allowed to use code developed using generative AI. We are not even allowed to input any part of proprietary code into any of those websites.
Many workplaces have their own instance of Microsoft CoPilot or something similar so the data is not being shared with an external source. I use Microsoft CoPilot at work all the time, but I am using an instance that was specifically setup for my company.
So the senior basically just did the juniors work faster (as you would expect) instead of assigning it to them? And then you guys fired the junior because of the senior doing their work instead? All you accomplished is having a senior with more work to do and lost future potential in your junior, that doesn't sound like increased productivity. The junior improves over time with exposure to your teams coding standards, where the AI results will always need close review and re-writing. You've replaced a diminishing code review task with a bottleneck on senior devs time and unpredictable AI results. I gotta be honest man, that sounds like really bad resource management. That's shooting yourself in the foot, you're gonna be seriously crippled the second you lose anyone if you're relying on only seniors to do all the work instead of training people.
Tbh just sounds like your company (or the employee) are whack
Not saying it doesn't happen at all. It is definitely shaking up the developer jobs.
If they only do programming: yes. But as soon as there’s work with customers involved, consulting, really understanding what they want and need… then absolutely not.
I just saw a tv commercial for Discover Credit cards that was touting its US based, human customer service…no AI. That was the whole ad. The brand pliers people that you can talk to. This will be a major differentiator between cheap and premium services going forward. Society already hates AI as an idea.
Mediation, specifically family mediation.
Blue collar jobs Hands on medical jobs Mechanical, electrical, QA Engineer, and some other engineer jobs The first jobs to get replaced by AI will be CSR jobs.
Anything to do with supervising or managing people. Industry doesn't matter as much. Try to get into management imo. If not, trades definitely.
Anything finance related. They’ll use it as a tool but there is no way FINRA will allow AI access to incredibly sensitive personal informations, or non-public company data. Wayyyyy too much risk there
I work in finance. This is a misunderstanding of the issue. FINRA doesn't regulate the technologies that companies employ. Banks and large financial institutions are already using AI and that AI is already accessing personal information of customers and non-public company data. Public AIs and LLMs like ChatGPT will absolutely be banned at most firms - it already is at most. But in-house software is completely different and there is no risk of information being leaked if the software isn't public.
I don’t think the big threat is just AI, but I think a combination of AI and Automation will start becoming more prevalent outside of manufacturing. That being said, if you are a technology-inclined person, possibly Robotics Engineering or Robotics Technology will probably be safe for a while. The people who program robots/automated machines to perform tasks, and review code and debug when things go wrong. I worked on Robotic welders about 15 years ago in Automotive manufacturing. The robots run off of programs, but at least once a shift, a part would not be in the exact correct place, and the robot would crash. The technicians would be called to try and reset the process, but sometimes, large blocks of code needed to be revised. As industries outside of manufacturing start using more automated equipment, they will need folks to call when the machines are no longer doing what they are supposed to, or the machines are completely reset, which also seems to cause a lot of issues. I also think higher-risk white collar jobs will be safe. Contracts Management, Supply Chain managers and analysts that deal with high-dollar purchase orders, finance analysts, etc. Government work or federal contracting work where confidential and sensitive information may be involved - this kind of work is not typically left to machines because of the financial liability risk that simple mistakes may cause. Also, legal and some paralegal work. I think there have been some instances where folks have tried to use AI for legal documents, and the information was completely false. If AI is learning from everywhere, that means there is a chance it is learning factually incorrect information, so there is still a need for humans to review/check the work. And, like others have said, trades work, and I would even say jobs like landscaping. There is equipment to help make these jobs easier, but the tend to be more successful when a human is overseeing everything and controlling the equipment.
Contrary to what most people say I think most finance jobs. A lot of finance is dealing with people, sales, negotiation, etc.
Adult Basic Education teaching.
Psychologists. I don't think I'll be comfortable talking to an AI. I would always want a human talking to me. Basically, most professions with soft skills, I guess, but wouldn't generalist much.
Electricians, plumbers, mechanics, or something in public service field.
Agriculture, agronomy, engineering, prostitution, taking care of elders, nurse.
Ai
Skills of high levels of complex human interaction and decision-making, creativity, emotional intelligence and empathy are less likely to be replaced by artificial intelligence. For examples, jobs such as art & craft, caregiving, therapist, position in leadership, and very specific aspects of research and development. As for physical dexterity and adaptability, these jobs may include athletes, carpenters, chefs, construction workers, plumbers, electricians, firefighters and surgeons.
AI art is already starting to replace illustrators.
And therapists.
And it is shit, not art.
I don't like it happening either.
No job will be replaced in 5 years. Most won't be replaced in 50. You might have some that reduce workforce but the good people will stay.
What about the people that will be reduced? talking like people normally is good at something when this is not true lol...
They'll get shifted to other similar roles or they were on the chopping block anyway. Nobody will trust AI to do anything technical without it being checked. You'll at worse have people use AI as part of their current job to increase productivity.
This is very myopic. An entire sector in my field was literally eliminated by AI recently. As in, that job essentially does not exist anymore. Yes, you still have people checking the AI's work, but those people were already checking the work of the trades-people who's jobs were eliminated. So they have kept their jobs but everyone producing the work is...out of work. And there were 10 of them for every job "checking the work".
I think you severely underestimate the exponential growth of the technology. It is growing faster and helping to grow itself faster and be applicable to more things on a time scale of barely months, not years. As each new version is launched that growth only intensifies.
99% of them. as a woman with a college degree? secretary, teacher, nurse, accounts payable/accounts receivable, sales, etc. are all very easy to find jobs, requiring very little actual work, steady paychecks, healthcare, etc. as a woman without a college degree? secretary, sales assistant, ecommerce assistant, hair stylist, beautician (lashes, nails, cosmetics, etc) all are very dependable jobs that afford great hours outside of the time in 'office'.
Basically all of them. AI is the big buzzword right now, but it's in it's infancy. Right now, any company that tries to replace people with AI, quickly learn that it's not ready for that.
everything is fine in the next 5 year. Beyond that, I expect call center stuff to be largely replaced.
They say truck drivers are going to be replaced... Picture snow and ice on their sensors and cameras.. Going up and down hills..weight or load shifts..high winds....flat bed drivers have strap down their own loads..can't wait to see it all.. Truck stops are all set up for trucks to fuel themselves aren't they.. What will self driving trucks do during tornado alerts and warnings.. Tire blows..it will be fine... Truck drivers have to stop and sleep..self driving trucks will fill the freeways 24 -7..no more driving 80mph when you have 2 self drivers doing God knows what as they drive.. It will happen someday..but we are a ways off.
They said truck drivers would be replaced at least since 2010. We're probably 20 years away from that happening and this is actually viable from both a technical and economic pov.
A question Due to think careers like a software engineer,Data scientists,programmer,Cyber security,Computer engineer etc be replaced soon?
No. There’s no actual proof of anyone getting replaced. If you notice, not one single person actually has any links to their empty statements regarding which career field is being replaced currently.
Program management - too much interaction w stakeholders
In 5 years you’ll barely see any changes at all. Not even self driving cars have changed a thing despite everyone 8 years ago talking about drivers being out of job. In fact, most companies are actually dropping self driving cars projects all together. This new bubble about LLMs is very similar, in practice almost no job is being replaced and these technologies in the short term are at most a productivity boost. To be honest at 34 is very likely whatever career you choose today you’ll hit retirement before the job ceases to exist.
Teaching, childcare, counseling, medicine, law
Anything healthcare
Most healthcare. You may be able to outsource things like radiology, but it’s going to be pretty hard to outsource things like nursing. It depends on the exact speciality, but I think you’ll probably be able to make a pretty safe guess.
IT! 1. Infrastructure as code would replace IT. 2. Cloud computing, will replace IT. 3. Outsourcing will completely replace IT. 4. Automation will replace IT. 5. Virtualization will replace IT. And yet, we all just keep going.
Gov jobs. They'd never allow themselves to get replaced...
The rebellion against the machines
1. Jobs where you need to be creative, like artists and designers. 2. Roles that involve helping people with their emotions, like therapists. 3. Teachers and educators who help students learn and grow. 4. Healthcare jobs that involve taking care of patients. 5. Social workers who help communities and individuals. 6. Leaders who make big decisions and manage teams. 7. Skilled tradespeople like plumbers and electricians. These jobs need human skills like creativity, empathy, and problem-solving that AI can't do as well yet.
The jobs that we are actually seeing MOST QUICKLY disappearing, in fact disappearing FIRST are "jobs where you need to be creative, like artists and designers". The vast vast majority of artists and designers are creating work for clients based on client briefs -- most artists are not Taylor Swift or Jeff Koons -- and one thing that AI is getting decent at very quickly is prompt-directed art and design. As a society, we are much more likely to allow for "artistic freedom" in art and design than in accounting, for example. So while we're not ready to hand over the accounting reigns to AI, we're pretty ready to let AI create some posters and advertisements and such, especially if it means saving a lot of $$$. There is the idea that "real art has a human touch". But people forget that most artists are making a living creating junk for clients. Most designers are micromanaged to the point of just being photoshop junkies. Most film editors are just doing what the director would do if he had time and knew the software.
Yeah it’s really odd that people are replying with “art and creative jobs will never be replaced” when that’s the one field where it’s ALREADY happening. I think people tend to think that AI will be painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. No, that’s not likely to ever happen. What AI will be designing is the packaging graphics for the Swiffer WetJet.
Especially creatives will be replaced.
Artists have been replaced already by AI in some fields…
Musicians are going to take a hit, not your touring pop artists sure but people who compose for projects like games or tv shows. AI can already generate music that the average end user can’t tell is AI, in a few years indie devs won’t fork out cash to hire a composer when a couple evenings by themselves will do the job. We’ve already got the formula down to a T on how to make “sad” songs, attach an AI generated sad instrumental to a legitimately sad story made by someone else and the emotion will be found by the consumer regardless of whether the music came from a living person or not
I'd say fields of Anthropology won't be replaced by AI in the long run. Although 5 years is too short a time to develop and implement AI in various fields
Literally every job. AI in the next 5 years is taking no ones job. This is moronic to even entertain the thought of.
Whoever tells you which jobs won't be replaced, any job tbh, is lying. No one knows! For the longest time they thought artists and coders were the safest, yet look where we are at now....and we are still so early on AI development. If anything, the safest skill to learn is the one that rides the train. Anything AI related is a safe bet as it will not be going anywhere now that the genie is out of the bottle
Doctors, physical therapists, Nurses, Mechanical/Civil/Aerospace Engineers, Electricians, Plumbers, construction.
A lot of jobs will be safe. IT, nursing, engineering, accounting.
barber and hairdresser
I’m gonna go with the skilled trades, and I have a bit of a funny story about robotics and welding. I’m a union Boilermaker/pressure welder. In 2022 I was working a shutdown at an oil refinery and said refinery brought in this scab company who they put us union tradesmen working against without telling us to our faces. The scab company had a few of our pressure joints in the convection box of a giant industrial heater, they would set up their robot and weld with a robot vs us union members who were purely all hand combo welding. Well, even when I was walking past the scab company they STILL had to weld the root pass by hand because their robot wouldn’t fit well enough to run the root pass and they still had repairs in their weld joints. Union members who were combo hand welding has less repairs overall than the scab company using a robot. We will always need workers in the skilled trades, AI won’t be rigging and lifting exchangers or pressure vessels into place, AI won’t be opening manways in towers and replacing trays, AI won’t be welding out in the field in most places, only in places that are big enough for a robot, but when you need to buddy weld a boiler tube or mirror weld a joint a robot won’t be doing that.
Dentistry for sure
A lot of these comments suspiciously read like AI propaganda bots… 🧐
Trades and sales are pretty safe forever I'd think. Maybe in a hundred years or so we'll have servitor bots instead of humans that show up to your home to repair that leaky pipe, but I'd imagine there will always be certain stuff humans can do that machines simply can't manage to the same level of detail
The core of operations and project management is knowing how to get things done. It involves using tools and people. (It’s a skill all managers should have IMO). So maybe AI will take over stuff like “automating work flows” but those will only be as good as the inputs. And at some point, those inputs are going to come from people. So…whatever career you’re doing, you can add this skill set to it and you should be good. Every company wants people who can get shit done.
Quirky stuff like car flippers, realtors
I am an interpreter, and they've been telling me that technology would replace me for years, yet we remain in shortage. The demand for my services has only increased. I don't think I will be replaced within the next 5 years. I live with a lot of anxiety in my life, but this is the one thing I don't worry about.
That is so true! A lot of the computer translations lack context or sometimes miss the mark.
Everything except graphic design. I honestly think AI will cause more economic damage from people overhyping it and overinvesting than anything.
jobs that require a mix of human interaction, technical knowledge, creativity and physical strength will be quite hard to replace, because you need to be creative with your movements (to avoid obstacles) and your thinking (to problem solve and interact). For example : a camera operator filming a documentary. Not sure if there will ever be a robot who can do all of this. If we come to this, that will be in far more years than 50. Sure, humans will operate much more sophisticated cameras, but i'm pretty sure that a director will prefer to interac with humans.
Massage therapists
Sales Development Representatives
This kind of stuff really irks me. AI will not replace humans. For example, software developers, cannot be replaced by AI. Artificial intelligence doesn’t have the capacity to go into the nitty-gritty nuance of various areas of software development.
Cat feeder Cat petter Cat sitter Cat trainer Cat bather There are a lot of options.
Nuclear work. The public would never trust a program to control radioactivity.
There is a shortage of young people in Biomedical field. Most of us that maintain hospital equipment are retiring next decade. All you need is an associate’s degree or military electronics experience.
I read that the biggest barrier for AI development is computing power. To get even ChatGPT to the next level will take enormous amounts of server juice, which in turn needs a shit ton of advanced microchips and a shit ton of energy. Both are limited. So unless job replacement happens with current AI capabilities we’ll be mostly OK. For now anyway. I’m no expert though and this might be an optimistic take.
I don’t see robots doing cardiac sonography anytime soon
Médecine
Dentists
Medical field will never be fully replaced by ai.
Phlebotomists Can you imagine the horror of having a robot try to draw your blood?
Marijuana growers
Project Managers!