It is 2024. So far, the jobs that were replaced by artificial intelligence throughout just the previous year alone number in the tens of thousands. Although projections vary drastically, it’s thought that millions of additional jobs will be lost to AI within the next decade. It is unlikely that every industry will be fortunate enough to avoid the monumental technological shift that is already occurring at lightning speed.
Some jobs are at greater risk than others when it comes to an AI takeover. Will your job be replaced within the next decade? With technology advancing at an exponential rate, consider yourself lucky if spared.
Computer Programmers
If you work in computer programming, namely writing code and doing other tasks that are considered routine and low on the totem pole, your role is at a high risk of being handed over to artificial intelligence.
Of course, if you are working to actively improve AI as a computer programmer, you will likely have greater job security as time marches on—at least, that’s how it’s currently looking.
Content Writers
The AI takeover of the field of writing is already well underway, so it should come as no surprise that AI will be employed to write more content as the years progress. Given that the technology is expected to become more advanced, the quality of the content produced by AI will also keep improving substantially.
When artificial intelligence is so much cheaper for companies to employ than living, breathing writers, why wouldn’t a majority of them make the switch as soon as possible?
Customer Service Agents
There are thousands of customer service agent jobs that have been eliminated as it stands, but even more people are expected to lose their jobs over the next 10 years. AI as customer service agents can mostly be seen in the form of chatbots, which can be found on almost every company’s website currently.
These bots are getting increasingly “skilled” at answering questions posed by customers. However, they can certainly be frustrating to deal with when they don’t have the right answers or when a real human is not reachable.
Graphic Designers
AI image generators like Midjourney and DALL-E can create quality designs that have been being used by companies since the technology has become available. These image generators only stand to become better at their job and not only create exceptional designs for company logos, fliers, graphics, and other visual content, but also videos (watch out, videographers!).
Taxi Drivers
Once all the kinks have been worked out of self-driving cars, such as stopping in the road and blocking traffic for hours, there’s no stopping AI from becoming society’s new taxi drivers. It isn’t unthinkable that Uber and Lyft will completely replace human drivers with self-driving vehicles to eliminate having to compensate contractors. Both companies already utilize some of these vehicles for picking up riders.
Whether human drivers are totally removed from the process obviously depends on the cost. If it’s more profitable for those companies to let humans pay for gas and car repairs, then it’s probable they will mainly stick to their current ways.
Retail Workers
Amazon is one company that has already created stores which are almost completely human-employee-free. This futuristic chain of grocery stores is called Amazon Fresh, and only a few actual employees are typically found at each location.
It’s highly likely that other grocers and other retailers will follow Amazon’s example in the near future. This could potentially lead to a cut of hundreds of thousands, or perhaps even millions, of employees across the retail and grocery industries.
The ten years to come are just the tip of the iceberg. Over the next few decades, even various medical and teaching professions could be taken over by artificial intelligence. It will be interesting to see how society is forced to reshape itself while confronted by these extraordinary changes.
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