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.
I'm no fan of Cabal controlled AI & robots. But currently that is the path we are on.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240717-artificial-place…
https://www.nme.com/features/rock-songs-written-by-ai-bots-n…
House 3d printers already exist…though crude
Plumbing should be an easy job for robots
War is obviously already being fought by robots aka drones
All the rest are pretty basic except the top 100, but then 99.999% of people cant do that either
Hey Siri, can you go back upstream into the matrix and make sure all other Siris give bad advice to all other users.
The quality of the answer you get depends on the quality of question you ask.
Hey Gemini, can you find me the most efficient mix and method to brew beer. I'll like something value for money with good taste and alcohol content.
It might not replace the person brewing for now, but it will replace how beer is brew, the ingredients that goes into it etc.
In addition, people who don't know anything about brewing will now have a private tutor with an IQ of 120+ in the subject of brewing who will answer any questions you throw at it reducing barrier to entry for anybody who wants to enter the market and try something different to disrupt the industry.
If you're asking for your own career choice or development. I would recommend to broaden your skillset whilst within your field.
i.e. if you are a coder, learn other skills that make it more appealing to keep you on rather than go in the way of AI. i.e. people leadership/management skills, learn to write business cases, take on change management, project management etc. That way if your specific field gets hit by AI, you will have the versatility to move into other areas.
It's very hard to predict which occupations will be hit hardest in 30 years, but the more versatile your skills are, the better chance you have of keeping a job or finding new work.
Surgeons are more replaceable than nurses. They already use robot for many operations obviously with the surgeon behind it.
Plus robots can easily utilise the same bedside manner as surgeons. None.
Exactly. Especially GPs. Would it be any worse with a modern future version of Siri?
I like my GP.
Lol spot on
I just asked ChatGPT to write a simple, short story about a future dominated by AI - pretty effing terrifying
The Last Choice
In the year 2075, humanity had everything. Infinite wealth generated by tireless AI-driven machines. No hunger, no disease, no war. Each person received a generous universal income, ensuring comfort beyond imagination. Death had become an option, not an inevitability.
Elias sat in his pristine apartment, staring at the tablet in his hand. The message flickered:
Your 100-year extension is approved. Confirm?
He glanced outside. The city shimmered, spotless and serene. No one hurried; there was no need. Happiness was mandated, chemically engineered by daily microdoses that kept anxiety at bay.
Yet Elias felt hollow. Purpose was extinct, ambition outlawed. Wanting more was a crime. Democracy had vanished—what was there to vote for when everything was provided?
He remembered the stories his grandfather told him: dreams, struggles, victories. Life had meaning because of its fragility. Now, eternity stretched before him, empty and unchanging.
The tablet beeped impatiently.
Confirm extension?
Elias hesitated, then tapped Decline.
A final message appeared:
Your choice is respected. Termination scheduled in 24 hours.
For the first time in decades, Elias felt truly alive.
There's a lot of "not so tasty" outcomes ahead before we reach 2075.
Creepy!
Wow - just wow
I think the problem is not about AI robots replacing jobs but more about not having enough jobs to go around because of massive productivity gained from using AI.
ergo too many humans. Capitalism demands them for customers, yet wants them gone for AI to do their jobs. Clusterflick ahead
We can’t really afford a clusterflick, I think there will be more and more make-work jobs created to keep people in the workforce, employed, whether useful or not. Otherwise society will collapse.
Otherwise society will collapse.
I have bad news. Capitalism has no plan B
@Protractor: They have a plan B. Downsize the pool of human RESOURCES. Cull the herd. Phase 1 complete.
That's what the boom of the last few decades promised us. as we automated more of our lives with machines, we'd have more time. look what's happened, we're more "slaves" than ever with our jobs.
Robotics Engineer / Automation Engineer / Mechatronics Engineer - If you want to be in the robotics/automation space.
AI/Machine learning/Data science, anything STEM that's tech related will stay relevant as well.
not sure i agree. standardised robots and CAD should reduce the number of jobs.
Look at something like drones. To build one you needed to design them from the ground up, now you just buy a dji, feed in requests through their API
The people who's using AI (copilot, chatgpt, gemini, deepseek etc) to help them do most their work will be the person who will be keeping their job and all colleagues who don't bother will be redundant.
Ninjas
Robots don't need to WFH. Just sayin'.
Robots don't call in sick nor take Annual Leave either.
Why not? Shouldn't they have rights & benefits too? Got to keep them happy.
Sick Leave = Firmware Update.
Well, some proponents of robotics also say "Robot Lives Matter", and they should also have 'equal' rights to human rights, if they are going to take their position as interactive-carers (eg. dementia patients, children minding, etc.).
@whyisave: They put the firmware up their date?
And are they still subject to the Asimov 3 Laws of Robotics?
Asimov 3 Laws of Robotics?
These will need to be incorporated into the Australian Industrial Relations laws then:
The Three Laws, presented to be from the fictional "Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.", are:
Pharmacist in the next 10 years. Doctors prescribe the dosage of the medication based upon the manufacturing of the drugs from the pharmaceuticals. The pharmacist picks the box of the shelf and prints a label with your name and dosage on it, than exchanges money for it.
Should have introduced robots a decade ago, it would have reduced the cost of medication by 15%.
Great, hopefully their quicker than the 72 hour in store wait most of them seem to do
it would have reduced the cost of medication by 15%.
Cost reduction = bigger profits
This is from my experience at the self-serve check-outs at supermarkets, where I am doing the work and saving the company the costs of hiring a check-out person, but I am not receiving any discounts for the products.
what can we really do about corporate greed? we need the medication.
Medication can be sold as generic forms, and mandated by law. I think India did this, ie. the Government stuck up for its own people, against private pharma interests.
Ironically, Mark Cuban did something in the USA, where he created a business model selling generic medicine, because brand-name medications are very expensive in the USA.
Inventors of medicines can have the choice of making their inventions royalty-free, eg. Avermectin (Ivermectin), but researchers / academics are also not rich people after toiling away for decades as a 'poor student for life', so they also want to try to benefit/profit from their inventions too.
Substantial amount of corporate greed is actually shareholder greed, ie. a population who themselves, short-sightedly, are investing and demanding profits, which are eroding their own happiness or in the 'hatred' of their own grandchildren.
This concept of "shareholder capitalism" is quite insidious and has limitless appetite, as it magnifies the collective greed of people.
They teach ethics in business schools as a separate chapter, at the end of the semester, just as a "reminder", to not be 'too greedy'.
Imagine a country's superannuation fund, profiting from companies which benefit from people in another country being sick?
It's all messed up.
Sherpa
You may not need one, if you are going to climb one in Minecraft.
sex workers
The oldest profession lives on through the ages …
Businessmen
Dictator. Pirate . Bikie. Life long dole bludger.
AI robots will probably be using us as slaves by then so there should be plenty for us to do.
Grifters and snake oil salesmen
MAGA^
I was thinking more Aaron Sansoni, JT Foxx and all those sleazy grifters - AI will see through all their BS
Not if they are programmed by DOGE grifters.
Tradies, AI devs
Robot service technician ?
COBOL Programmers —- everyone thought they would be replaced by now, but they are the true survivors and here to stay.
Politician.
Some blue collar jobs would be safe for quite a while as long as automation can't output/outdo human strength and coordination, so most trades, construction, landscapers and farmers as well I suppose.
The scariest to go first en masse would essentially be low skilled entry level jobs, because this screws over high school students and people who only have experience in casual work.
I would imagine 10 years from now we will have virtually no customer service agents on hotlines and you'd only get to speak to real people for extremely complex and specific call types.
The state/federal governments and the contact centre contractors won't have to deal with extreme employee burnout anymore with members of the Australian public screaming at their staff being responsible for this retention issue.
Makes it so they don't have to waste time hiring and upskilling people, just make the AI read a script and just update it when rules change.
I think anyone who works with a computer and/or phone will likely experience a decline in employment status. Other things which are more difficult to automate will be ok for a short time
You reckon? Robots can definitely assist.. You think robots can replace? I'm genuinely curious.