“AI is the new electricity.”
– Andrew Ng (Computer Scientist & Tech Entrepreneur)
And just like electricity, it’s going to cause some shock and thunder in the job market.
It is eating up some jobs while others are immune to it. And those immune roles have some particular characteristics common to all of them.
In this article, I will help you plan your career by telling you what jobs will AI devour and what jobs will survive in the future. Also read about how AI is helping people find and prepare for jobs.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- AI will surely kill some jobs, while some will survive.
- AI is not there to replace humans; we need to leverage it to amplify our capabilities.
- Job roles based on trust, human connection, psychology, leadership, and ethics are here to stay.
- AI is helping people find and prepare for jobs.
AI is making thundering strides in the job market.
You watch TV, and a news anchor is reporting on the latest layoffs a company made, possibly due to AI integration.
Then you decide to chill and open social media, and someone is screaming about the job apocalypse.
It’s literally everywhere!
AI looks scary, but it is not the job-devouring demon that it is being made out to be.
It surely is transforming how work is done, but still, AI integration doesn’t mean human replacement.
The future is not human vs AI, it’s human with AI.
INTERESTING STAT
On Upwork, people in AI-work are earning 40% more than people who are in non-AI work.
There are many jobs that AI can’t even touch.
You wouldn’t trust an AI robot in a health emergency, would you? Healthcare professionals possess empathy, precision, and quick decision-making. Something AI doesn’t excel at the moment.
Teaching doesn’t just involve information distribution, but also understanding students and changing the approach based on each of them. Not AI’s cup of tea.
To become a psychologist or therapist, you need to have a high degree of empathy. The role also involves relationship trust. Real hard for AI to replicate.
Human connection and empathy are essential for social work. Sorry AI.
Meaningful UX work requires emotional, contextual, and strategic intelligence. Not artificial intelligence.
AI can’t replace Product managers as their job requires considerable human judgment, creativity, and strategic thinking.
Even the best minds struggle to keep hackers at bay; forget about AI doing that. Cybersecurity analysts are safe.
Roles requiring human connection with judgment and creativity at centerstage are hard to replace for AI.
The area of laws involves deep knowledge of context, intent, and ethics with grave real-life consequences. You can’t depend on an AI bot for that.
HR professionals possess human judgment, emotional intelligence, and ethical responsibility. Again, a no-go zone for AI.
Sales roles require human judgment, creativity, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Best of luck, AI!
Marketing strategists regularly employ their complex knowledge combination of strategy and human psychology at work. AI bots can’t do any of this on their own.
Journalism requires empathy, trust, ethical judgment, and physical presence. Can’t be replicated by AI.
Entrepreneurs continuously innovate and adapt to market changes, while building trustful relationships with clients and stakeholders. No machine can take such initiatives.
Though you can hire an AI. For example, you can hire a receptionist for your AI cleaning services business.
Leaders run things. AI is run by someone. Mutually exclusive.
No matter how smart it gets, AI won’t be able to replace people in these roles.
Their physical, contextual, creative, and emotional aspects resist AI from adapting to them. They sit at the intersection of judgment, accountability, and human trust.
These values are hard to automate. Still, AI can assist people in these roles with day-to-day, repeatable tasks to increase their efficiency.
AI might be taking some jobs, but it is also helping people find and prepare for them.
The algorithms are matching people with their perfect jobs based on their preferences, skills, and interests. AI can also simulate mock interviews and prepare you best for the day.
So, some jobs AI is going to kill, while some will survive.
What you have to do is avoid those AI jobs and focus on human jobs.
And for that, you have to strengthen those human aspects which AI can’t replicate: judgment, accountability, empathy, trust, emotional and ethical quotient.
Think of AI like a new species that we have to collaborate and live with; the future might not seem too bleak then.
Some but not all. Jobs requiring high accountability, judgment, trust, and empathy are here to stay.
AI will replace jobs involving routine, repeatable tasks involving data with low accountability, such as clerical and support roles.
Roles involving healthcare, teaching, creativity, and social work will survive the AI job onslaught.
