Jobs that AI won’t replace?

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My 9th grader is leaning towards a field within law enforcement.

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Anonymous wrote:Surgeon.

Surgeons will absolutely be replaced by AI.

I don't quite understand how this will happen. Explain?

I’m not the person you’re responding soon, but there is already a ton of robotics in surgeries already, including neurological surgeries.

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Anonymous wrote:Get her some help with her anxiety

Not OP, but this is actually an extremely valid concern and it’s actually pretty smart for the 16-year-old to be thinking about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Surgeon.

Surgeons will absolutely be replaced by AI.

I don't quite understand how this will happen. Explain?

NP, my son had a robotic surgery done to put a stent in his urinary system. It took like 3 months to schedule time on the robot (while he was in pain). But tiny incision and very minimal recovery. It was 6ish years ago, and even then was surgeon assisting the robot, not the other way around. And was done fast, for all the time we spent waiting to have it done. This is going to become more and more normal. One surgeon babysitting a robot doing 100 minimally invasive surgeries a day.

Exactly

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Anonymous wrote:What about the trades? Plumbing, HVAC, etc.

Seriously - there are a billion jobs that can't be replaced by AI. During the pandemic we found out exactly who - it's not a difficult thought exercise. AI can't build a house, teach a child, rock a baby, plumb a house, pump septic, dig a well, staff a grocery store, cut hair, clean a hospital, nurse at the bedside, etc.

I don’t know what world you’re living in, but actually AI is capable of doing a lot of those things already

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Anonymous wrote:What about something like speech therapy?

Or how about teaching?

I actually fear that someday classrooms will just be kids in front of a computer screen. I think teaching is a very susceptible profession to ed tech has been trying to take over education for two or three decades now and it’s making huge advances

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Anonymous wrote:What about something like speech therapy?

Or how about teaching?

Online courses have been a thing for a while. Professors/teachers will DEFINITELY be replaced by AI and laptops.

Teaching is definitely safe. Some aspects may change (like more online instruction), but I’d love to see an AI program actually manage a classroom.

How’s AI going to get 30 teenagers to sit down at a computer to work? How’s AI going to keep 25 elementary school kids in a classroom?

Are you actually serious right now? They could have individual pods with a monitor. It’s pretty freaking easy to imagine teachers being replaced.

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Anonymous wrote:Nurse

LOL, wrong. I'm a nurse and you can bet that AI is happening in nursing

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Anonymous wrote:What about something like speech therapy?

Or how about teaching?

Online courses have been a thing for a while. Professors/teachers will DEFINITELY be replaced by AI and laptops.

I know lots of tech people think teachers will be replaced by robots, but be aware that tech people overwhelmingly send their own kids to private schools that reduce tech access for young children. Until humans start birthing robots.

Real teaching esp for young children will still exist as a career. Speech therapists, OT, athletic trainers/PT, social workers, psychologists

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Anonymous wrote:DD is 16 and is thinking about possible future careers. She is super stressed out about AI taking over her job and we are having a hard time thinking of some safer jobs.

She wants to work with her mind rather than her body (so no blue collar) and is not interested in medicine.

Jobs that require more complex human physical labor (if robotics doesn't progress as fast as AI is progressing) and jobs that require human oversite (managerial), IT jobs, robotic or mechanical repair work, and all the jobs that will be too small or specialized for AI and robotics to be economically feasible to take over.

Office jobs, computer/desk jobs, legal professionals, claims/insurance, etc. will be first to be replaced by AI, as they will require no robotics at all.

OP, I am not much help in what professional path you DD should pursue, but in the meantime please encourage her to get into business ownership. I met a wonderful woman who provides decluttering/organization services. She is great with people, very caring, empathetic, etc, but also a solid professional whose background was in a couple of others industry prior to decluttering and organizing. I met her initially just needing some decluttering help for our entire house and ended up booking a 6-month package.

Please reassure your daughter that the possibilities are endless and please encourage her to not let all of this AI talk discourage her. It is hard to get away from people constantly hyping up AI.

Does your daughter enjoy talking with people? You wrote that she enjoys working with her mind. Has she researched becoming a researcher (gerontology, brain health, dementia, Alzheimer's, neuroscience in general, etc...) What about robotics itself? There will always be a required human element (improving the robots, troubleshooting, etc...)

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Anonymous wrote:My 9th grader is leaning towards a field within law enforcement.

Won’t replace but robot dogs, etc will be used for patrols even more heavily than now.

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Trainers who teach people how to use AI.

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Anonymous wrote:My 9th grader is leaning towards a field within law enforcement.

Won’t replace but robot dogs, etc will be used for patrols even more heavily than now.

As long as they don't unveil a real life ED209!

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Anonymous wrote:What about something like speech therapy?

Or how about teaching?

Online courses have been a thing for a while. Professors/teachers will DEFINITELY be replaced by AI and laptops.

Teaching is definitely safe. Some aspects may change (like more online instruction), but I’d love to see an AI program actually manage a classroom.

How’s AI going to get 30 teenagers to sit down at a computer to work? How’s AI going to keep 25 elementary school kids in a classroom?

Those students will be "remote" and school from home.
But if public in class schools still exist in the future, discipline could easily be handled by robotics or shock collars, ankle monitors, or the like? Just thinking outside the proverbial box here.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What about something like speech therapy?

Or how about teaching?

Online courses have been a thing for a while. Professors/teachers will DEFINITELY be replaced by AI and laptops.

Teaching is definitely safe. Some aspects may change (like more online instruction), but I’d love to see an AI program actually manage a classroom.

How’s AI going to get 30 teenagers to sit down at a computer to work? How’s AI going to keep 25 elementary school kids in a classroom?

Those students will be "remote" and school from home.
But if public in class schools still exist in the future, discipline could easily be handled by robotics or shock collars, ankle monitors, or the like? Just thinking outside the proverbial box here.

This. Maybe not at the Pre-K through 6 levels, but definitely for middle and high school. It would solve the behavior problems and chronic truancy nicely, and there's a contingent of bright, quiet kids who would probably prefer it to the chaos and drama in brick and mortar classrooms.