Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 14:04     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
I think doctors may be more a case of performance improving than employees being cut.

Anonymous wrote:I think some doctors can be replaced because you input your symptoms and an AI system can diagnose and prescribe medicines. Recently my son was not well in college and he put all his symptoms into chatgpt and he got a sense for what was wrong and he went to the local pharmacy and bought OTC drug for it.
Anonymous
Post 04/15/2025 08:52     Subject: Re:Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
According to this guy, lawyers and recruiters are most vulnerable to AI in terms of white collar jobs.

https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/tech-investor-says-ai-already-090138939.html

He said law school students should think about what they could do three years from now that AI could not.

"There's not going to be that many things," he said.

Fresh associates often do law's grunt work, and the legal tech industry is buzzing about how AI could cut down busywork.

In March, an employment lawyer told Business Insider's Melia Russell at a legal tech conference that "lawyers are dinosaurs."

"Lawyers need to wake up," said Todd Itami, a lawyer at the large legal defense firm Covington & Burling. Learning to use artificial intelligence is "imperative" for their success, he added.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 15:21     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:I think some doctors can be replaced because you input your symptoms and an AI system can diagnose and prescribe medicines. Recently my son was not well in college and he put all his symptoms into chatgpt and he got a sense for what was wrong and he went to the local pharmacy and bought OTC drug for it.


As with any other heavily licensed profession, this will be the function not of what AI can do, but what AMA, the licensing organization, thinks it can/ should do. There is no way ever that someone will be able to fill a prescription without a human doing something with it. The licensing organizations get to define what that something is.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 11:05     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:There will be fewer teachers. More "aides" which will be resetting kids iPads and helping with lunch supervision.


Based on the scenario presented above, teachers will transition to private and charter schools. The job will still exist. I can see privates going tech-free as a feature.


yes, but that's going to be a reduction in workforce by over 50%. and these people are prestige whores so get that undergrad degree from an elite school if you can and then a masters in education
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 11:03     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:There will be fewer teachers. More "aides" which will be resetting kids iPads and helping with lunch supervision.


Based on the scenario presented above, teachers will transition to private and charter schools. The job will still exist. I can see privates going tech-free as a feature.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 10:54     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
There will be fewer teachers. More "aides" which will be resetting kids iPads and helping with lunch supervision.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 10:52     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Okay, this might seem like a silly or stupid question to some, but how much will AI affect foundational lab or field research?
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 10:49     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:schools are going to be less of a thing.

republicans will kill the public school system w for-profit stuff schools/charters. a ton of "individuated learning" ie many kids in a building on screens.

rich people will keep to private private or tutors or create (super wealthy) neighborhood pods with a lot of non-screen time.

progressives and less rich dems will homeschool and there will be a new version of private schools costing 30k a year that will be supplemented by vouchers (further destroying publics)

jews, christians, muslims will have their own religious-based schools, moving evermore to conservative branches of respective religions.


so basically they;re destroying America and will race to the bottom. Maybe America will be great for the 1% but terrible for everyone else.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 10:48     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:CS actually. Current AI is much better as a programming assistant than just about anything else.


You must have never used it for programming anything other than the simplest possible functions. It isn't that great at it and can't be trusted without human overnight and direction.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 10:43     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:schools are going to be less of a thing.

republicans will kill the public school system w for-profit stuff schools/charters. a ton of "individuated learning" ie many kids in a building on screens.

rich people will keep to private private or tutors or create (super wealthy) neighborhood pods with a lot of non-screen time.

progressives and less rich dems will homeschool and there will be a new version of private schools costing 30k a year that will be supplemented by vouchers (further destroying publics)

jews, christians, muslims will have their own religious-based schools, moving evermore to conservative branches of respective religions.


This I can see.

But there will still be teachers, which is the point of this thread.

Teaching can’t be fully taken over by AI. There’s too much of a social/emotional component to teaching that a computer could never do.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 10:13     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
schools are going to be less of a thing.

republicans will kill the public school system w for-profit stuff schools/charters. a ton of "individuated learning" ie many kids in a building on screens.

rich people will keep to private private or tutors or create (super wealthy) neighborhood pods with a lot of non-screen time.

progressives and less rich dems will homeschool and there will be a new version of private schools costing 30k a year that will be supplemented by vouchers (further destroying publics)

jews, christians, muslims will have their own religious-based schools, moving evermore to conservative branches of respective religions.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 09:57     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Computer science, law, teaching, public affairs, translator, data analyst, to name a few.


Teaching?

I’d love to see AI manage 30 disruptive kids in a classroom.

Teaching is safe.

AI robots will be able to "manage" disruptive kids better than humans were ever able to. What kid is going to scream in the face of a 6 foot tall 400 pound robot with no face? A dumb one.


Is this the argument that AI is better than teaching?

Teaching is not synonymous with managing disruptive kids. Either You need to learn what AI is, or find your kids a better school.
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 09:54     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Computer science, law, teaching, public affairs, translator, data analyst, to name a few.


Teaching?

I’d love to see AI manage 30 disruptive kids in a classroom.

Teaching is safe.

AI robots will be able to "manage" disruptive kids better than humans were ever able to. What kid is going to scream in the face of a 6 foot tall 400 pound robot with no face? A dumb one.


Why scream, when they can just unplug it?
Anonymous
Post 04/13/2025 09:44     Subject: Which majors are most vulnerable to AI?
Anonymous wrote:Graffic arts/design


+1 At work, all the graphics people have been let go. We use AI for all graphics now. For me, it is the first "job" that I've seen completely undone by AI.