Will your job exist in the next 10/20 years?

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I work in allied medical sector, so my job will exist but with the caveat that AI can increasingly do a lot of diagnosis via scans and decision making from this.

AIBU to ask if you think your job/sector of work will survive in a similar role to now?

Would you recommend a young person to start a career in your sector?

In my job I would say you need to up-skill clinically in extra qualifications and embrace the technology before others to stay ahead of the inevitable changes already coming with AI in the medical field.

My job will always exist (carer). I can't imagine people will want to be cared for by machines or whatever even if that technology existed.

Would I advise people to go into it? Nope! I love my job but we are overworked, underpaid and completely disrepected by other professionals and the general public who don't realise what our job is.

Well what if you were well paid and respected as professionals but because you only worked for those who could afford it, while everyone else got the machines..?

Snap! I probably have 15 more years to suffer through before being able to retire, though.

I could easily see my desk job being replaced by AI at some point, but I don’t think the university I work for will be able to fund or organise the software required in the next ten years. Maybe twenty years, though.

I don't think AI will rapidly replace whole jobs in the immediate future, but instead will replace a part of the work, so e.g. a company will only need two people in future to do the work of three currently as the more routine aspects of work can be outsourced to bots. Will this make work more satisfying or more stressful for remaining human employees?

Another big question is will we tax the robots?

Well what if you were well paid and respected as professionals but because you only worked for those who could afford it, while everyone else got the machines..?
I don't understand the point of your post. Machines would never be funded for a start and neither will carers be paid to reflect their work because the majority of people generally but mostly in power don't care about elderly or disabled people.

TA here.
Will the need be there for TAs? Yup.
To sit in the playground with an anxious child and talk them into school.
To tie shoe laces and cut food and put on plasters.
To help a child say a sentence then write it down.
To say ‘you might find that book scary but I think you’ll love this one.’
To negotiate a myriad of friendship issues in the role of peace negotiator!

Will my job still be here?
Nothing to do with AI and everything to do with the government!
There would be elements that could be done by AI but most of it requires human contact.

Well given the massive surge in young people with mental health problems if day any proffesion in that field. So adult or child MH nursing, psychology, psychiatry . ....Depressingly we've done a number of things to push people into poor mental health and a fair few will need care and treatment for years to come.

I'd like to see a computer learn to wipe arses!
Any job that requires hands on care will be safe.

No, I'm not concerned, I work in accounts and AI is doing more and more, but that's not a problem, I just need to be aware, work with it. human intervention/overview/checking will still be required.

It should be but I could see it being done by AI with a warm body there for crowd control. (Primary teaching)
It might be out of necessity as most will have given up if the gov keep up at their current rate of destruction.
We all know how watching a video / live lessons etc worked in lockdown for young children don't we!

My job is definitely safe, computers can write stories, but it takes a human to really bring them to life and tell them effectively.
As long as people want to hear stories I'll keep telling them, and no robot voice can really connect like a human can.

I have a quirky job that AI couldn't replace but we are looking at ways of using AI as a tool for certain tasks, which I think will happen.

Actually I find OP's posts about finance a bit irritating. Supports and proports the myth. so stereotyped she's automatically written that Accountants as white collar workers are threatened. This just fuels and supports such notions that need quashing. Any accountant I know is aware. ICAEW constantly monitor it and are aware of it. Writing papers such as : Encouraging all: "the skills accountants need to work alongside intelligent systems". I don't think they should be threatened, they are moving with the times to work with it, to benefit from it themselves, and their final say so as a human will still be required and isn't currently threatened.

Accountant here, I'm hoping AI can do the model building, data gathering part of my job that's dull. I then can talk to people, make decisions and business partner to improve the company. My knowledge and not my skills are going to keep me employed as well as my adaptability to new tech.

It'd be a scary world if robots replaced childminders...

No, but that's due to government policy and funding rather than AI and technology.

Yes, I’m a probation officer and there will always be criminals and they need a real person to work with them. It’s interesting that most of the jobs people are mentioning that couldn’t be replaced by AI are the low paid, undervalued caring type jobs!

My job's not going to exist by the end of the day I think. Redundancies being announced this morning 😪

EA (executive assistant). Probably won’t exist in the form it does now. Doesn’t help most are underrated. No wouldn’t suggest anyone to go into this when younger.

Oh no, so sorry. Big hug.

There is a school of thought that says we will become experts earlier as we are not bogged down in the mundane tasks.

This is already true to some extent. Lawyers of my age spent hours of their training page turning bundles, paginating, reading documents to check cross referencing etc. I am not sure this is useful training.

Precedents are more centralised now. Even the smallest law firm has access to practical law for example (and larger law firms have immense precedent banks). When i first qualified i drafted a lot from scratch. I have noticed that nq's cannot get started easily if there is no precedent. AI will help that as there will always be a starting point.

I think lawyers will just become expert earlier in their field. 30 years ago it was common even in city firms to make partner at 5 pqe.

I think my job wont exist for reasons other than AI. I think AI will help decision making in my job and will help some admin tasks but not replace it.

Nope, I wouldn't have thought so.

Student Support in H.E., and the very high ups already think we can be replaced by an online knowledge base and FAQ's.

I would imagine jobs like mine and sales roles are the most under threat from A.I. and changing human habits.

As a consultant psychiatrist, I think we are going to need many more of my profession over the next few decades.

I have had some cases this week which have required a lot of reflection, as the patients had complex symptoms which did not fit into any neat category. There was lots of discussion with the patients and weighing up various treatment plans based on my knowledge and experience, mixed with empathy, kindness and pragmatism. I would be astonished if a computer could do this.

Does AI benefit from gratitude and positive feedback? That made my job rewarding this week. I wonder if it works the same for machines?! Probably.

I work in libraries in HE, which obviously are affected by the onwards march of technology, but I believe the job will change and, admittedly, the number of staff reduce rather than it going completely. Right now I support students with disabilities and other access needs and my job is changing rapidly to be more about supporting students to use assistive technology to access resources so there are pathways.