With the development of AI and its integration with the machines I believe many of the repetitive jobs and even some creative jobs will be gone. So what occupations do you think that will stay in 20 to 30 years? Just want to make some plans for next generation, either boys or girls.
China has two feet dancing robot, US has autonomous taxi …
My two cents would be teacher, surgeon, cook/chef.
May I ask if you went to school in Australia?
Yes. Bad substitute teachers did do the ole "chuck on a video" thing.
Tradies - will out last any robots.
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Even major leaders in the space, who you would think have the best idea of what is to come… can't seem to make any solid predictions. Musk/Tesla promised full self driving cars in 2017, 8 years ago. They still haven't shipped FSD. That's just one example, but failure to deliver has been basically a hallmark of the AI revolution.
The plateaux is here and the models aren't getting much better. We could be stuck with these dodgly LLMs which aren't that useful… for maybe decades to come.
So I think it's extremely difficult to see what jobs will actually disappear any time soon.
Writer and editor. First to be replaced, first to be on a comeback. Machines have no originality. Machines can't do nuance. Machines can't read between the lines, or say or show something without actually doing it. But yes, a machine can use Grand Theft Autocorrect to bore you with The Avengers part 93, or disguise it as a new franchise.
-Police/Law Enforcement
-Barber (This can never be replaced.)
-Union members
-Prime Minister (im just being silly)
-Barber (This can never be replaced.)
Hair Cutting Machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zBrbdU_y0s
Hair Cutting Humanoid
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nPhAfV37i9M
If we keep pumping out humans to feed capitalism as per now, AI will speed up the collapse of that current capitalist model.Especially when the smoke & mirrors crypto is thrown into the mix.
Crash test dummy time
For all you Elon fanbois>
https://www.news.com.au/technology/motoring/on-the-road/fier…
Can't wait to sleep next to Miranda Kerr each night personally.
Cheaper, easier and won't make my life a nightmare.
Make sure if she's a "fast machine", she keeps her motor clean.
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You know those really tiny prawns you see in things like fried rice? Every single one of them is peeled by hand. There is no machine that peels them.
I think extracting crab meat from the shell is also done by hand as is shucking oysters. Bugtails too. Lobster.
Will AI be able to clean, gut and skin a fish? Even an Emperor, tuna or salmon?
We haven't invented machines to do that stuff yet, how IS AI going to enter those markets?
Will AI be able to throw pizza dough into air and spin it around etc to stretch it out?
How about a chicken plucker?
Slaughterhouse worker? Could AI break down and portion a body of beef?
Many of the machines in factories and farms were all done by hand, and over time, the laborious, repetitive, manual tasks that could be automated, … have been.
This was all in the pursuit of profit (ie. chasing money), safety, reducing manual labour, and so on.
The AI component is more of a threat, because a significant amount of brain-work, can be automated and done without human error and take no sick days and produce output 24/7, etc.
Amazon is already using amazing technology to fulfil all of our orders in the warehouses, and there are minimal humans involved, but they are not paid well either.
So, Australia is going to get a rude shock, because our standard of life and work-life balance, is off the back of worker's rights, but these workers will need to have solidarity against this threat.
The ruling class already know that jobs suddenly disappearing, will create massive upheaval and protests in society, so perhaps they've started replacing citizen jobs with imported immigrants,…and then eventually, they'll replace the immigrant jobs with AI (and deport the immigrants back, which is now being normalized by Trump's Executive Orders…at the advice of said ruling class).
This is the non-sudden, slow-burn way of replacing jobs with AI.
Not many people are talking about this. I only know a few select Substack authors, Dr VA Shiva, myself and you who have even come to this realisation. Not enough people have the realistic perspective that this 4th industrial revolution is going to make most people perma-redundant and unable to support themselves or their families, nor the reality that the ruling class are not going to perma- support them with welfare or UBI. The question that the ruling classes have almost certainly already asked themselves is "what to do with 7.5 billion useless eaters?". The answers to that question are very dark.
I think you're absolutely correct that the influx of immigration into the Western world is to break the back of workers and neuter any solidarity. The West, where workers rights and individual rights came from, is the obvious place for resistance to the dark answers above, so that is the focus for breaking the workers.
Diagnostic radiology
J/k
GP and Pharmacist will definitely be AI'd in the next 10 years. As will Lawyer
Dentist\Physio, less so.
GP and Pharmacist will definitely be AI'd in the next 10 years. As will Lawyer
I said this, a couple of years ago, to a relative who is a GP;
she was too proud to see what I meant.
Dentist\Physio, less so.
Many skills that rely on hands, will have some 'protection' from robotics.
30 years is a long time… who knows.
That is a big topic. Rich will become richer. Stratum solidification is getting worse. AI research lab controls the world. Government will care less about poor people because they don't need their contribution of labour. That is why AI need to be treated very careful. With current development speed without regulation, we are not far away from a big chaos. However, when the pandora box opened, to survive the situation we need hug AI. Now how to use, hack it. Make yourself valuable for big corporates or know how to hack it to destroy them.
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plumbers, electricians, carpenters
Blade Runner 2026 is a'comin'.
Religious leaders will dodge the bullet.
Institutionalized 'old-world' religion will be antiquated, when compared to the 'new religion'.
If the intelligence is artificial, who owns it? How is AI affected by intellectual property rights?
If the AI is created at job A, can that AI be transferred to job B?
How is AI affected by intellectual property rights?
Meta Torrented > 81.7 TB Of "Illegal Books, Research Papers, etc."
https://torrentfreak.com/meta-torrented-over-81-tb-of-data-t…
Meta Forced to Pause AI Training on Data Collected from Facebook and Instagram Users in Europe
https://www.bitdefender.com/en-au/blog/hotforsecurity/meta-f…
Meta AI Scanning private WhatsApp conversations
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1g6tqg7/meta_ai_sc…
Technical troubleshooters. AI is designed by humans, and when have we humans ever designed anything perfectly. Things will go wrong and AI can only solve what it knows. There will always be a role for a human to come in when things go wrong, pick up the pieces and put it back together. Even things designed by robots will have flaws and faults. That's where the troubleshooters come in.
Trades such as electrical, plumbing, especially in the maintenance sector
Religion
Security (Law enforcement, military, and cybersecurity)
Philosophy & Ethics
Law & Justice
Politics & Governance
Media & Journalism
Diplomacy & International Relations
Luxury & High-End Craftsmanship
Gaming & Esports
Each of these industries relies on human qualities like judgment, emotion, creativity, and ethics—things AI and automation struggle to fully replicate.
Surf Lifesaver
Sheep shearer
Goat herder
Plenty of papers on this if you're interested in a read
tl:dr
Things that people would prefer a person for (therapy, childcare, adult work, faith related..etc)
or
Things that are difficult to automate due to fine motor movement, perceived lack of connection..etc such as care work/nursing/some trades..etc
What's the autonomous taxi called? I've seen some limited trials, but the self driving cars are pretty poor really.
Waymo operates in San Francisco and the affulent parts of LA
Is Waymo better than Cruise? Cruise ran over a woman.
Following a series of incidents Cruise suspended operations in October 2023
Some types of entertainer. e.g. People don't want to watch a computer play a game with a generated voice commentary on twitch or youtube, it's the kind of thing which only makes sense if it's a human doing it.
Not many examples like that I can think of though.
Yeah just chuck on a video and pay an illegal immigrant peanuts to babysit them instead of paying fully qualified teachers. Nothing much to it. /s