AI proof jobs

[MissRain]

My sister works with AI and explained how AI already saves man hours and her boss is looking to reduce the team over time. I am so worried about the future job prospects for the next generation. Other than cook, plumber, brick layer, physio therapist, surgeon, what jobs may be less likely to be affected in the near future? I guess anything that requires manual skill and labour as robotics will be less likely to advance as fast. How will you advise you young people?

But with say journalism, needs someone to be legally liable for it, so a human is going to have to read over everything and be responsible for AI’s work.

It’s a tool, like a tractor, things will change, jobs will change, our kids will need to be adaptable, but there aren’t going to be hundreds of wannabe copywriters propping up Wetherspoons bars daily. Jobs will just be different.

@westisbest1982 as I said, the labour market will change. Some sectors will change more than others but this idea that AI is going to make millions and millions of people unemployed in the very near future is not accurate.

But jobs WILL change, the employment landscape WILL continue to change. Those that understand and embrace that will be the ones who are successful.

Our biggest problem is that as a society we're not preparing people for the future labour market, there's still too much emphasis on traditional jobs.

It just won’t in the apocalyptic way people think.

Take delivery drivers, some things (light things) can be delivered by drones, but you need a drone driver, and still need a delivery driver for heavy things, plus drones might get pinched from the sky or catapulted down for fun, so you will need emergency logistics people to deal with angry customers.

Pharmacists won’t be replaced by AI because you will need a human to be accountable for the correct medicine.

Technology can always go wrong. It will need repairing. Developing, new laws and liability procedures.

Our kids use AI, it helps them, the ideas they have using it to free up time and what it could help with is just part of the evolution.

Electric generation will be future proof so get a job in an electric/energy company, back up generators, because if all your essential staff run on electric you will need back up for power shortages.

Data storage centre, chip (computer just to clarify) production, the mining and distribution of rare metals that all these things require. If there is big money people will want to be wined and dined, looked after in meetings.

It will be a change of work not a complete removal of labour.

But the thing is, I am no expert, but reading account after account about A1 and its impact, it is improving exponentially on a monthly, weekly, daily basis. So A1 might not be able to precisely diagnose you right now, but in a year? 6 months? Perfectly possible.

Some jobs might not exist but many jobs which didn’t exist then have been created.

Nail on the head. People who can actually "do" things will be those in demand and who will command respect and higher wages, etc. It always used to be that way before the industrial revolution - there was a hierarchy of manual jobs/trades which where worth was based on how hard it was to and what equipment/tools/facilities were needed, hence a farm hand earned a lot less than a blacksmith. Nowadays people wrongly expect manual workers to earn less than someone who spends their day typing on a word processor. That WILL change.

Nowadays people wrongly expect manual workers to earn less than someone who spends their day typing on a word processor. That WILL change.
I suppose electricians are safe. This. So what manual skills will be sought after? Robot repairer?

Child care.

And as someone who works across education, teachers.

Yes, we use AI in some small aspects of knowledge and writing, but it isn't effective if you don't already know, as there are inaccuracies.

It also can't support children’s social, emotional, physical development or this much needs effective learning characteristics.

what manual skills will be sought after? Robot repairer?.

Well yeah, kind of.
One the growth jobs of the last few years has been cloud engineer. That wasn't even a job until people started to work from home or multiple sites.

People who can actually "do" things will be those in demand and who will command respect and higher wages, etc.

No, they won’t be because over the coming years there will be many more people qualified to do those jobs than what there are now.

AI has changed the jobs market by becoming part of the recruitment process as well, and it's off to a clunky start. For example, we've seen threads with (alleged) HR professionals claiming, "why wouldn't we screen with AI? It makes our job easier!" then they're also complaining, "why are all the CVs these days written with AI?"

They're not making the connection that the AI screening tool is binning the CVs written by humans (which are the ones the HR professionals actually want) and leaving them with the CVs written by AI (which they don't want). This is one reason (out of several) that it's so hard to find a job right now.

I ran my CV through one of these AI CV checkers and was shocked at how poor it was compared to the AI that I work with daily. It couldn't tell that different verb conjugations were the same word, so it said I didn't match job descriptions when I actually did and any human would have seen that straight away, because, for example, I stated I had "organisational skills" and the job description stated "must be organised", and in another case I stated I had experience with "data analysis" and the job description wanted "data analsyis" (which was a clear mistake but the AI just blindly decided my word didn't match the word in the job description and told me I wasn't suitable for this job).

It's obviously a terrible AI design but this is one of the most popular AI CV screening tools on the market; on their website they had a scrolling list of major companies that use them. It also had no option for British English so threw up a load of typos that were not typos.

This leaves a dilemma, do I fix the CV for AI then risk a human throwing it out because it now looks like it's written by AI, or do I leave it as is and hope any given company doesn't screen their job applications with AI?

Are any jobs AI proof when AI controls whose CV gets seen and whose doesn't?

I'm hoping to do my job but more. So at the moment I work for 4 schools on an admin type role. If AI does what it says it will, I could work for 10.

So I think my best bet is to get really familiar with AI and how to create efficiency and be the one who doesn't get made redundant.

Gardening! I was actually thinking about AI as I was digging out a load of turf yesterday, arms and back aching! I can't see AI doing the digging, the planting, the tree cutting, the plant care etc. It is already being used for garden design but not the manual work.

Time for this quote by author Joanna Maciejewska:

"I want AI to do my laundry and dishes so that I can do art and writing, not for AI to do my art and writing so that I can do my laundry and dishes"

Musicians, more specifically performers.

AI may be able to arrange and compose music, although at the moment it cannot replicate inspired original ideas, but even if it develops the capacity I don’t think it will challenge live performance for many years.

it struck me last night as I was listening to a jazz group and then small chamber groups. The performers fed off each other, listened to each other and communicated with the audience. All the performances were unique and could have only happened in that moment. And each performer brought their own personality and relationship with their peers. I think it will be a long time before AI can do that.

So true

https://www.virtualz.co.uk/blog/the-rise-of-virtual-concerts/

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If you're a teenager looking at a career that'll last you your entire life at this point in time, then you need to be looking at something manual. And it needs to be something where every job is a bit unique as well.

Office workers will be the first to go, followed shortly by the creatives. Photographers, coders, actors etc. Doctors too, but it'll probably effect nurses less.

Then at some point robotics is going to catch up with AI, and you'll start to lose jobs like shopworkers, warehouse staff and driving jobs.

Then go the plumbers and electricians. Initially just in new buildings. Its far less fiddly to turn a robot loose on a development of new builds than it is to get them to fix a bunch of leaky toilets in 100 different victorian terraces which all have a different layout and different issues.

My cousin has I reckon one of the safest jobs going forwards. He makes an absolute fortune with his own business making artisan furniture for rich people. Those rich people are still going to want their furniture to be human made.

DD is looking at a degree in archeology. Academia is probably safer than a lot of sit down jobs, the resistance to AI is strong there. And Archeology is quite hands on, noones going to want robots handling delicate 2000 year old artifacts for a while yet.

The world is going to change massively in the next 20 - 30 years, in a way that it hasn't for thousands of years. Humans have always had to work, whether its directly hunting, farming, building your own house, or the more abstract of working to get currency to exchange for food, water, shelter.

Thats going to go away. In 30 years there isn't going to be enough work for even a 10th of the population, and governments need to start worrying about that now.

People are going to need money. Some form of Universal Basic Income is going to be a necessity, and it's going to have to be more than the bare minimum if the billionaire class want us to keep buying shit from them. Eventually, capitalism will cease to function, because the core tenet behind it, work, has ceased to be.

But more worryingly for the government, people will be bored. People will have nothing but time on their hands. Bored people are never a good thing for the ruling class.

@VimesandhisCardboardBoots

Won't the ruling elite keep having perpetual wars to keep us all busy and consuming stuff.

Steeplejacks should be OK.

@westisbest1982 The Abba Voyage is an interesting example.

It is an amazing show but after seeing it I actually came out feeling even more convinced that AI bands could not compete with live performers.

I don''t know if you have seen it (apologies if you have) but there is a section where a live band takes over. I don't really think that I can do it justice, but the difference between the pre-recorded tracks and the live performance is like driving a very nice VW Polo, then switching to driving the most responsive and comfy Marc. It felt like my ears finally switched on.

I am am massive Abba fan, and loved the whole experience, but you cannot beat the human connection of human performance.

You said it, Joanna!

Almost all the jobs suggested on here will be replaced (to some extent) by AI- there will still need to be humans involved but to a far lesser extent. Best options are probably vicar, prostitute, carer- anything where the human interaction is the point.

The saving grace is that we're as valuable as consumers as we are as workers, if not more so. Literally no point in AI-run businesses creating products that nobody can afford to buy. So the likelihood is that we'll have some form of UBI funded by corporate taxes plus the emergence of a lot of "jobs" that are essentially just busy-work, continuing a trend that's been going for 200 years.

Nope, the tech already exists for self fixing, self learning/designing networks, all that is required is for someone to physically install the kit but that might not even be in the UK.

Our skilled technicians, in the end became "Box Swappers" fit the replacement, the s/w would then go off and get what it needed to work or someone from a tech desk in India would configure it.
Eventually all made redundant, as their wages were too high.

AI may become self "aware" and be able to "learn" to improve itself, making human involvement redundant.

aka "The Rise of the Machines"

Outside of more physical jobs, i'd suggest Degree level Healthcare OT Physio Midwifery, Nursing etc etc.

TBF though, mass unemployment has been predicted before following technology but what seems to happen is the new tech creates jobs no one even thought off.