8 Jobs That Will Be Replaced Completely By Robots, Thanks To The Incoming AI Revolution

According most experts, artificial Intelligence and automation are going to be the face of industry very soon. No more will people have to fill factory floors and warehouses. Instead, we¡¯ll have robots and algorithms taking over.

The problem with that is we will then have a variety of professionals suddenly out of a job, having to find another line of work. That of course is part of what AI experts are worried about. So what job descriptions can we expect to no longer be available?

Construction Workers and Manual Labourers

Whether it¡¯s guys laying the foundation for residential apartments and malls, tea pickers, warehouse handlers, no manual labour jobs are going to survive. Anything that require you to get down and dirty can theoretically be done by a robot, though we¡¯re not yet at a stage where our bots are that flexible to perform different tasks. Not to mention that AI can help coordinate hordes of bots to work in sync better than people ever could. Amazon is already doing this with some of its warehouses, as are others, and you can expect that to get even better soon.

Lawyers

Ok, so lawyers likely won¡¯t completely be replaced, but a lot of their support staff might end up getting the boot. After all, their services are expensive, and a lot of their daily work is routine stuff that can be churned out without much mental acrobatics, like drawing up contracts and case filings, maybe even representing smaller cases with limited scope for argument, like parking fines. If that¡¯s the case, it¡¯s going to be a lot harder to start off as a lawyer, because the big shots are going to want someone with experience, but who¡¯s going to pay an intern when you have a robot to work for free?

Journalists

Well, if there¡¯s one thing an algorithm can¡¯t imitate it¡¯s creativity right? Wrong. As it turns out, scientists have been trying to do that, some successful and some not so much. In addition, the media industry has never really been a particularly profitable one. If anything, print journalism might be the first to turn to AI to write articles, perhaps with just a human editors retained to give them a little colour.

Drivers

Drivers are already with their foot halfway out the door, thanks to artificial intelligence. Google, Apple, Uber, Tesla and more are all researching self-driving technology. We¡¯re part of the way there with cars having the ability to take over on empty straights, as well as in some cases braking before we do in an accident. It¡¯s only a matter of time before computer vision and the hardware improve to a point where you could own a car and not know how to drive. That means driving schools will also be pointless.

Chefs

Cooking requires skill, experience, and most of all creativity. The thing is, it also requires people stand in front of a stove all day. It¡¯s only natural we¡¯d try to replace our chefs with robots. All a robot needs to cook all day everyday is a recipe, the tools, and it¡¯s default lack of impatience and social life. And eventually, we may even be able to develop sensors that can ¡°taste¡± things, so the robot isn¡¯t just cooking by numbers. Most importantly, IBM¡¯s Watson AI was even able to develop entirely new recipes from scratch, using its knowledge of taste chemistry and flavour pairings. Even simple little Flippy showed he¡¯s capable of cooking burger patties on his own.

Financial Analysts

Like lawyers, accountants are also not cheap. However, they¡¯re probably more easily replaced by AI. After all, a large part of the job is recognising trends and mitigating factors that would affect trades, or are hiding missing funds, and a computer can do that much faster. Then again, there may be at least one possible opening for humans here, and that¡¯s professionals with a knowledge of both math as well as computer science. After all, the only thing better than the computer handling your assets near-perfectly is the person that wrote its algorithm to do that.

Telemarketers and Customer Service

This replacement process is already underway, with chatbots emerging across various platforms. You can expect these to very soon be the standard telemarketers, and customer service executives for everything from your hotel, to your smartphone service center, to perhaps even government offices.

Medical professionals

Perhaps not entirely, but you can expect a lot of medical personnel to lose their jobs in the future. What a doctor can diagnose, AI can do for you through just your smartphone. What a doctor does in surgery, high tech equipment can do on its own. Wearable devices can give you daily checkups for your blood pressure, cholesterol, heart rate, and even advise you on how to be healthier. It¡¯ll be a long while before we won¡¯t need human doctors (if ever) but you can certainly expect technology to augment this profession further in the near future.