Anything that requires genuine human connection, like therapy or teaching. AI can mimic emotions, but it can’t truly understand or empathize the way a person can.
Artists, therapists, and professional BS artists (lawyers, salespeople) might be safe… for now. Humans still have a monopoly on being convincingly insincere.
In theory, it would sound like one of the jobs that could be replaced by AI.
In practice, however, it has the potential to completely fuck over our society as we know it, endangering tens of thousands of lives every day, potentially, if shit turned sour.
Plumbing, Electrician, Constructor worker, Firefighter, Police officer (for now they might be robots someday), Florist, Lawyers, Psychiatrists, Air Traffic Controllers.
The healthcare professionals such as: Doctors, nurses, therapists, and caregivers; that relies on emotional intelligence, compassion, and the ability to make nuanced decisions tailored to each individual.
idk i do xray and i think it would be extremely difficult for AI to replace xray techs. most healthcare jobs that require actual patient care would be off the table.
i mean, just for xray alone, we’re moving patients, positioning them, operating the equipment, etc. i can’t imagine what would happen if patients just went into the xray room alone and had to listen to AI tell them how to position and shit 😭 patients can barely follow our instructions when we physically show them what we need them to do. not to mention everyone’s anatomy is so unique, so you have to make adjustments to positioning all the time, and i feel like it would be rly challenging to create an algorithm that accounts for all of that.
Teachers maybe because children need that human interaction and ai still got many things wrong if they will replace human in that domain it will be a long time before that can happen
I don’t know if you have watched the series Westworld. If what the AI/humanoids was able to do , which was act and function as a real human then we are fucked. Because there is nothing they won’t be able to do. Heck we won’t be able to tell real human vs a humanoid.
Social workers, more so than psychologists since social workers need to go to peoples houses and need to pick up on subtleties both in the house and in peoples expression. AI can’t smell things, social workers need to be able to tell if a client’s house smells terrible. Social workers are also more likely to physically handle clients depending on the field., and need to have a lot of empathy.
It really depends on the “winning conditions” for the outcome. All jobs can be replaced by AI and automation, but will it be better? Eh… Even the ones pushing for all this don’t care if it’s better just that it sells their product to companies. Companies just want to be able to do some semblance of their current work but cheaper etc,
Warehouse manual labor jobs. And I don’t mean Amazon, picking and sorting, etc, which is already mostly automated. I’m talking about shipping companies that deal with ridiculously heavy and awkward shit like farm equipment parts, shit that’s not packaged properly and falls out of the box, poorly stacked pallets that tip over in the trailer, labels with bad barcodes, all that. Sure, some warehouse jobs can be automated, but most warehouses aren’t neat and organized like Amazon distribution centers, and the videos you see online. I saw a video on YouTube a while back showing a robot unloading a trailer and putting boxes on a conveyor belt, using suction to pick up the boxes, but all the boxes were perfectly stacked and identical in every way, and clearly didn’t weigh much. If I saw a trailer like that at my job, I’d slap myself in the face and wake up from that dream! Even with the most advanced AI and image processing, robots aren’t gonna be dealing with the shit we warehouse workers deal with any time soon. Everything is unpredictable in this line of work.
Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, and Interpersonal Skills:
Mental Health Professionals: Psychologists, counselors, and social workers require deep interpersonal connections, empathy, active listening, and a nuanced understanding of complex human emotions, which AI currently cannot replicate.
Healthcare Professionals (especially those involving direct patient care): While AI can assist with diagnostics and administrative tasks, roles like nurses, physical therapists, and doctors (particularly general practitioners and surgeons) require compassion, nuanced judgment, and the ability to respond to unique patient needs in a human-centered way.
Teachers and Educators: The ability to connect with students, understand their individual learning styles, provide personalized guidance, and foster a stimulating and supportive learning environment relies on human interaction and emotional intelligence.
Human Resources Managers: Tasks like conflict resolution, employee relations, and understanding complex organizational dynamics require empathy and strong interpersonal skills.
Creativity and Originality:
Creative Professionals: While AI can generate art, music, and written content, it lacks the genuine ingenuity, originality, and the ability to conceptualize and tell compelling stories based on real human experiences that designers, filmmakers, writers, and marketing strategists possess.
Chefs and Bakers: The creativity involved in developing new recipes, understanding flavor profiles, and the artistry of food presentation are difficult for AI to replicate.
Musicians and Performers: The emotional expression and unique interpretations in live performances are inherently human.
Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, and Strategic Decision-Making in Complex and Unpredictable Environments:
Business Strategists and CEOs: These roles require deep understanding of human behavior, market dynamics, and the ability to make complex decisions with incomplete information, often in unpredictable circumstances.
Scientists and Researchers: Formulating hypotheses, designing experiments, interpreting complex data, and making novel discoveries require human intuition and critical thinking.
Judges and Lawyers: Legal interpretation, understanding nuances of human behavior in legal contexts, and making ethical judgments require critical thinking and a deep understanding of human society.
Cybersecurity Analysts: While AI can assist in identifying threats, proactively protecting digital assets and responding to real-time incidents requires human critical thinking, problem-solving, and strategic decision-making.
Skilled Trades and Manual Dexterity in Unstructured Environments:
Construction Workers and Skilled Tradespeople (e.g., plumbers, electricians): These jobs often involve working in unpredictable environments and require adaptability, problem-solving, and fine motor skills that are difficult to automate fully with current AI and robotics.
Hardware Technicians: Diagnosing and repairing physical computer components often requires manual dexterity and problem-solving in unpredictable physical situations.
Roles Requiring Physical Presence and Direct Interaction in Specific Contexts:
First Responders (e.g., firefighters, paramedics): These jobs require quick thinking, adaptability in dangerous situations, and direct physical interaction to help people.
Certain Service and Personal Care Roles: While some aspects can be automated, roles like hairdressers, personal trainers, and home inspectors involve direct physical interaction and personalized service that are hard to fully replace.
General Considerations about AI and the Future of Work:
Augmentation, Not Just Automation: Many experts believe that AI will more likely augment human capabilities rather than completely replace jobs. AI can automate repetitive tasks, freeing up humans to focus on more strategic, creative, and interpersonal aspects of their work.
New Job Creation: The development and implementation of AI will also create new jobs in fields like AI development, data science, AI ethics, and AI maintenance.
Evolving Nature of Jobs: The tasks within many jobs will likely change as AI takes over certain responsibilities. Workers will need to adapt and develop new skills to work alongside AI.
Importance of Human Skills: Skills like critical thinking, creativity, emotional intelligence, and complex problem-solving are expected to become even more valuable in a world with increasing AI adoption.
Quality Sculpting. Actually good carpentry. Actually good art. Therapy. Genuine teaching (a teacher that gives you the answer only isn’t a good teacher). Anything human contact related.
And on generative AI, see the thing is it cannot create. Only generate. And there is a massive difference between those two.
Ai can write programs and eventually it will get good at it. However, the day that ai can replace software engineers is also the day that all jobs get replaced. So I’m ok with that. “make a program that can drive a car” “make a program for a robot to build a house“ etc. I’m fairly confident there’s nothing a human can do that can’t be replaced with a robot.
Possibly cooks/chefs, dishwahers, janiters, farmers/ranchers/agricultural workers, factory workers, surgeons, nurses, coroners, construction workers, police officers, fire fighters, soldiers. Hard labor stuff. Anything that can’t be done by connecting to internet and wi-fi.
Almost all. It is capable of replacing rudimentary work with set instructions. It doesn’t replace much, but supplements everything. AI is a buzzword for computational power. It is up to the user to utilize the tool appropriately. No different than the inception of the internet, the introduction of Google, etc
Most jobs. For companies to want to invest in AI to replace jobs, the AI itself has to be super cheap. If it remains expensive, companies will be a lot less willing to invest into AI as a job replacer
‘Material risk takers’, CEOs, doctors, accountants etc. Maybe even consultants. Their job is to take the blame if something goes wrong, regardless of anything else. Demand might be much smaller, but a fortune 500 company will pay a human to sign off on accounts for liability purposes.
As someone who works in payroll, literally anything that involves employees and how it trickles into admin stuff. You have employees who mess up, managers who mess up. You’ll need HR. Those payroll things ultimately go into accounting and often require manual adjustments. Legislation is often open to interpretation to some degree which is stupid af, so you’d need lawyers too. If you have employees, you’ll always need the humans who do the stuff in the background.
Jobs that are challenging for AI to replace often require a combination of emotional intelligence, creativity, physical dexterity, and complex decision-making. Here are some examples:
Healthcare Professionals: Doctors, nurses, and therapists rely on empathy, ethical judgment, and human interaction, which AI cannot replicate.
Creative Roles: Artists, writers, musicians, and designers bring unique perspectives and emotional depth to their work that AI struggles to emulate.
Skilled Trades: Electricians, plumbers, and mechanics require hands-on expertise and adaptability to unpredictable situations.
Educators: Teachers and mentors provide personalized guidance and emotional support that go beyond AI’s capabilities.
Social Workers and Counselors: These roles demand deep emotional intelligence and the ability to navigate complex human relationships.
Live Performers: Stand-up comedians, musicians, and actors create unique, real-time experiences that AI cannot replicate.
Leadership and Management: Effective leaders rely on intuition, interpersonal skills, and strategic thinking that are difficult for AI to mimic.
While AI can assist in many of these fields, the human touch remains irreplaceable. Which of these roles resonates most with you?
If the job requires more brain power than physical power it’s probably replaceable by AI. If it is the opposite then it’s probably not replaceable until fully functioning robots are a norm. Which is decades away at least.
Ironically we all thought the first jobs to get threatened would be the unskilled things that nobody wants to do.
Maintenance work, you can have all the AI you want. But robots can’t turn a wrench worth a damn. I’m betting, if I stay in my job long enough. We’ll be the last humans left in the plant.
All of them. AI is a garbage fire. Believe it or not, I’ve worked with the tech for almost 4 years. The more I work with it, the less impressed I become.
Legal professions and PR are the ones where I feel like there should be more pushback going forward. The AI screwups in those fields have had the most obvious liability problems. They keep trying to put AI in charge, but the fuckups need someone to blame and sue, and the AIs aren’t on the receiving end of those.
Engineers. In the future we’ll probably be able to say “give me an engine with these specifications” and it’ll spit out something that’s 95% of the way there.
But you’re still going to need someone to decide what those specifications are. We don’t need a V8 with a turbocharger if we’re designing a lawn mower. Maybe this is supposed to be a military vehicle so reliability and ruggedness is more important than fuel efficiency and weight. Or maybe we need a design that can be easily manufactured in bulk for cheap. No matter what you’ll need someone to look at the intended use and figure out what it needs to do that.
Any sort of quality assurance or quality control jobs. Typically AI needs to be prompted for the sorts of things a skilled QA/QC person would find, Until you get to the point where a human is 100% removed, and maybe not even then, you will always need some other human to do the “well akschually, did you really mean that” work.
Direct Support Professionals…I work with adults with severe developmental disabilities and behaviors and I know for a fact AI could NEVER replace our job.
I don’t know if I’d say “never” but I suspect any trade that requires going into a person’s home and having to deal with a wide range of possible layouts and/or tech/hardware interfaces won’t be replaced within the next few generations. Installing cable, laying carpet, plumbing, HVAC, etc. Robots excel when there’s consistency (like on assembly lines) and when every home has a different shape, it’ll be difficult to get a one-size-fits-all machine just for navigating the layout of the space. Eventually we may have that tech, but we’re a ways off from that yet, and that’s just the first obstacle. Many such jobs need to account for different brands or shapes of the product they’re there to fix or install, with a near infinite amount of possible layouts in terms of placement or shape or room to work. The ones that can be standardized so they’re identical in every home are closer, but still a long ways off because we haven’t done that yet.
Machine operators. There always needs to be someone to make sure it runs properly and correctly. Printing dates clearly, labels properly applied to packaging. Someone to work on the machine when something goes wrong
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Prostitution
Hooker
AI ethics expert
Plumbers. At least not for a long time.
The love that can provide by true people
Anything that requires genuine human connection, like therapy or teaching. AI can mimic emotions, but it can’t truly understand or empathize the way a person can.
politicians
Anything requiring hands.
Artists, therapists, and professional BS artists (lawyers, salespeople) might be safe… for now. Humans still have a monopoly on being convincingly insincere.
Japanese dolphine hunting
Florist
Construction workers
Air Traffic Controllers.
In theory, it would sound like one of the jobs that could be replaced by AI.
In practice, however, it has the potential to completely fuck over our society as we know it, endangering tens of thousands of lives every day, potentially, if shit turned sour.
Plumbing, Electrician, Constructor worker, Firefighter, Police officer (for now they might be robots someday), Florist, Lawyers, Psychiatrists, Air Traffic Controllers.
Nurses
Doctors
Lawyers
The healthcare professionals such as: Doctors, nurses, therapists, and caregivers; that relies on emotional intelligence, compassion, and the ability to make nuanced decisions tailored to each individual.
Plumber
All of them, that are really skilled jobs.
Proctologist
Psychologists
idk i do xray and i think it would be extremely difficult for AI to replace xray techs. most healthcare jobs that require actual patient care would be off the table.
i mean, just for xray alone, we’re moving patients, positioning them, operating the equipment, etc. i can’t imagine what would happen if patients just went into the xray room alone and had to listen to AI tell them how to position and shit 😭 patients can barely follow our instructions when we physically show them what we need them to do. not to mention everyone’s anatomy is so unique, so you have to make adjustments to positioning all the time, and i feel like it would be rly challenging to create an algorithm that accounts for all of that.
Fisherman
Teachers maybe because children need that human interaction and ai still got many things wrong if they will replace human in that domain it will be a long time before that can happen
Firefighting
Karate instructor
I think everyone is replaceable.
We’ll be watching AI robot sports in the next 10 to 20 yrs.
If “They” let us live that long.
I don’t know if you have watched the series Westworld. If what the AI/humanoids was able to do , which was act and function as a real human then we are fucked. Because there is nothing they won’t be able to do. Heck we won’t be able to tell real human vs a humanoid.
Training AI…
Mental health professionals
Programming
Software developer….. lol…. Lmao!
Social workers, more so than psychologists since social workers need to go to peoples houses and need to pick up on subtleties both in the house and in peoples expression. AI can’t smell things, social workers need to be able to tell if a client’s house smells terrible. Social workers are also more likely to physically handle clients depending on the field., and need to have a lot of empathy.
It really depends on the “winning conditions” for the outcome. All jobs can be replaced by AI and automation, but will it be better? Eh… Even the ones pushing for all this don’t care if it’s better just that it sells their product to companies. Companies just want to be able to do some semblance of their current work but cheaper etc,
Doctor
Warehouse manual labor jobs. And I don’t mean Amazon, picking and sorting, etc, which is already mostly automated. I’m talking about shipping companies that deal with ridiculously heavy and awkward shit like farm equipment parts, shit that’s not packaged properly and falls out of the box, poorly stacked pallets that tip over in the trailer, labels with bad barcodes, all that. Sure, some warehouse jobs can be automated, but most warehouses aren’t neat and organized like Amazon distribution centers, and the videos you see online. I saw a video on YouTube a while back showing a robot unloading a trailer and putting boxes on a conveyor belt, using suction to pick up the boxes, but all the boxes were perfectly stacked and identical in every way, and clearly didn’t weigh much. If I saw a trailer like that at my job, I’d slap myself in the face and wake up from that dream! Even with the most advanced AI and image processing, robots aren’t gonna be dealing with the shit we warehouse workers deal with any time soon. Everything is unpredictable in this line of work.
welders
Carpenter.
General Considerations about AI and the Future of Work:
Wine tasting. Writing wine tasting notes.
Mine. At least for the next 20 years until something drastically high tech is specifically made for what I do
Quality Sculpting. Actually good carpentry. Actually good art. Therapy. Genuine teaching (a teacher that gives you the answer only isn’t a good teacher). Anything human contact related.
And on generative AI, see the thing is it cannot create. Only generate. And there is a massive difference between those two.
I was gonna say gynecologist. Who would trust a robot putting stuff in you? But then I realized a random person is most likely hell as it is 😂
Ai can write programs and eventually it will get good at it. However, the day that ai can replace software engineers is also the day that all jobs get replaced. So I’m ok with that. “make a program that can drive a car” “make a program for a robot to build a house“ etc. I’m fairly confident there’s nothing a human can do that can’t be replaced with a robot.
CNA. AI cannot wipe someone’s butt yet. So unless AI can physically take care of people, my job is safe.
Locksmith.
Possibly cooks/chefs, dishwahers, janiters, farmers/ranchers/agricultural workers, factory workers, surgeons, nurses, coroners, construction workers, police officers, fire fighters, soldiers. Hard labor stuff. Anything that can’t be done by connecting to internet and wi-fi.
Almost all. It is capable of replacing rudimentary work with set instructions. It doesn’t replace much, but supplements everything. AI is a buzzword for computational power. It is up to the user to utilize the tool appropriately. No different than the inception of the internet, the introduction of Google, etc
Most jobs. For companies to want to invest in AI to replace jobs, the AI itself has to be super cheap. If it remains expensive, companies will be a lot less willing to invest into AI as a job replacer
Server maintenance
Management jobs
‘Material risk takers’, CEOs, doctors, accountants etc. Maybe even consultants. Their job is to take the blame if something goes wrong, regardless of anything else. Demand might be much smaller, but a fortune 500 company will pay a human to sign off on accounts for liability purposes.
AI jobs
Collsion Repair / Car Restoration
As someone who works in payroll, literally anything that involves employees and how it trickles into admin stuff. You have employees who mess up, managers who mess up. You’ll need HR. Those payroll things ultimately go into accounting and often require manual adjustments. Legislation is often open to interpretation to some degree which is stupid af, so you’d need lawyers too. If you have employees, you’ll always need the humans who do the stuff in the background.
Surgeons
IT professionals
Therapists
Police dispatcher. Being in that field, I don’t see how AI could take that from real people
Plumbers
All of them, in the long run. They end up having to hire twice as many people to clean up the mess made by AI
Sex workers
Social workers
I asked AI:
Jobs that are challenging for AI to replace often require a combination of emotional intelligence, creativity, physical dexterity, and complex decision-making. Here are some examples:
While AI can assist in many of these fields, the human touch remains irreplaceable. Which of these roles resonates most with you?
Animal care
If the job requires more brain power than physical power it’s probably replaceable by AI. If it is the opposite then it’s probably not replaceable until fully functioning robots are a norm. Which is decades away at least.
Ironically we all thought the first jobs to get threatened would be the unskilled things that nobody wants to do.
Critical thinking and making decisions
As it currently is: Everything. Ai is just superficial. It cant replace any jobs.
Eventually: Nothing. At some point AI will basically be a simulation of a human brain. And at that point anything a human can do AI can do.
Instrumentation tech – They are the people that calibrate the robots when they are being installed and they fix the robots when they break down.
Captain on ships
Maintenance work, you can have all the AI you want. But robots can’t turn a wrench worth a damn. I’m betting, if I stay in my job long enough. We’ll be the last humans left in the plant.
All of them. AI is a garbage fire. Believe it or not, I’ve worked with the tech for almost 4 years. The more I work with it, the less impressed I become.
Im not seeing ai cleaning bathrooms so … Janitor
anything whic requres physical contace ,cause robots cant compare to human biology ( its near to impossible)
Politicians. We stuck wit em.
Legal professions and PR are the ones where I feel like there should be more pushback going forward. The AI screwups in those fields have had the most obvious liability problems. They keep trying to put AI in charge, but the fuckups need someone to blame and sue, and the AIs aren’t on the receiving end of those.
Researchers like archeologists or biologists
Engineers. In the future we’ll probably be able to say “give me an engine with these specifications” and it’ll spit out something that’s 95% of the way there.
But you’re still going to need someone to decide what those specifications are. We don’t need a V8 with a turbocharger if we’re designing a lawn mower. Maybe this is supposed to be a military vehicle so reliability and ruggedness is more important than fuel efficiency and weight. Or maybe we need a design that can be easily manufactured in bulk for cheap. No matter what you’ll need someone to look at the intended use and figure out what it needs to do that.
Priests and community leaders. There will be massive demand for meaning and communtiy post AGI/ASI
Lots of people here are probably just mentioning their own line of work…
Priests. Considering how traditional most churches are, I doubt that any Christian would want a robot to tell them what God’s word means.
All of them. FUCK AI.
Any sort of quality assurance or quality control jobs. Typically AI needs to be prompted for the sorts of things a skilled QA/QC person would find, Until you get to the point where a human is 100% removed, and maybe not even then, you will always need some other human to do the “well akschually, did you really mean that” work.
Car Sales. Those who disagree don’t truely know car sales.
Direct Support Professionals…I work with adults with severe developmental disabilities and behaviors and I know for a fact AI could NEVER replace our job.
I don’t know if I’d say “never” but I suspect any trade that requires going into a person’s home and having to deal with a wide range of possible layouts and/or tech/hardware interfaces won’t be replaced within the next few generations. Installing cable, laying carpet, plumbing, HVAC, etc. Robots excel when there’s consistency (like on assembly lines) and when every home has a different shape, it’ll be difficult to get a one-size-fits-all machine just for navigating the layout of the space. Eventually we may have that tech, but we’re a ways off from that yet, and that’s just the first obstacle. Many such jobs need to account for different brands or shapes of the product they’re there to fix or install, with a near infinite amount of possible layouts in terms of placement or shape or room to work. The ones that can be standardized so they’re identical in every home are closer, but still a long ways off because we haven’t done that yet.
Blowjobs
Machine operators. There always needs to be someone to make sure it runs properly and correctly. Printing dates clearly, labels properly applied to packaging. Someone to work on the machine when something goes wrong
Fact checkers.
Nursing
Mario 64 speedrunning.
That’s called a TAS run and it’s a different thing.
People who collect sperm and artificially inseminate animals.