Artificial intelligence could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time
jobs. Here are the industries that AI could dominate first.
1. Creative Jobs To many peoples’ surprise,
creative jobs are some of the first jobs to go.
Graphic designer jobs are at extreme risk of dwindling, because AI image generators
can now generate images in under 2 minutes that look completely photorealistic. These
images are far beyond what inexperienced graphic designers are able to produce.
Other tools using a technique called generative fill are able to place objects
in images that aren’t there in a totally convincing way in under 20 seconds. They
can even replace any type of clothing on people.
Motion graphics and CGI artists could soon lose job opportunities as well. Within 1 to 2 years,
AI-generated video clips will be completely photorealistic. And these video clips will
last for 1 minute and even much longer than that. In the not to distant future, replacing objects,
characters, and weather effects in videos will become a seamless process.
Even music composers could see fewer job opportunities than before. That’s
because AIs will produce automated music and melodies with very little human intervention.
More than likely, the creative artists who learn to utilize AI tools throughout their
creative process could have the greatest chance of thriving in the future. But eventually,
even the best human artists could start to feel the impact of the AI takeover.
2. Customer Service Jobs Customer service representatives
are at an extreme risk of losing their jobs in the near future.
Soon, AIs will be able to talk to customers over the phone using voices that sound 100%
like real humans. Not only will they sound just like humans, they’ll likely sound considerably
better than some customer support reps you’ve probably talked to recently.
And these AIs could work 24/7 without ever getting tired or needing breaks of
any type. In fact, just one AI could potentially perform hundreds of call
center jobs simultaneously using many different voices at a time.
They could answer any question a customer has because they would have access to
massive databases with answers to common questions and common solutions to problems.
These AIs will also be able to creatively handle unique questions presented to them,
exhibit emotional intelligence, and provide personalized recommendations.
Even receptionists at hotels and similar establishments, who often deal with customers,
could start to lose their jobs. They could be replaced with friendly-looking robots.
And they could also be replaced with computers that display AI avatars on
their screens in video format that can answer any customer question.
The people affected by these job losses would need to learn new skills in higher-demand,
emerging job fields in order to survive.
3. Tech Jobs Typically, in corporate jobs,
the lowest ranking positions requiring the lowest levels of skill are most at risk.
Data entry jobs are among the first jobs to go because AIs will easily analyze unstructured
data sources such as images, audio, PDFs, and more to input that data into data management systems.
Junior software developers could experience tremendous job losses because advanced
language models like ChatGPT can write and optimize code at the intermediate level. Soon,
these language models will produce entire software applications in under a few minutes.
Data and business analysts could begin to lose job opportunities because AIs will
be able to produce charts and graphs better and faster than most humans.
They could find deep insights in data that humans have a hard time finding.
And they can perform data analysis 24/7 in real time without ever getting tired.
Cyber security professionals could lose their jobs because AIs will be capable
of automatically creating predictive models to help them detect threats to computer systems.
There is a bright side, though, relatively speaking. Some of the
main IT professionals who could remain safe for a while could be the ones who
build the artificial intellgiences that are replacing everyone else’s jobs.
4. Finance Jobs Soon, an AI could give you better financial
advice than your local human financial planner. And it could do this in under a couple of minutes.
Specialized and automated language models trained specifically on financial data could
manage portfolios, suggest investments, and automatically select and remove stocks and
bonds in your portfolio based on their performances and predicted trajectories.
Likewise, AIs could dominate investment banking,
and help bankers make informed decisions about mergers, acquisitions, and investments.
5. Sales & Marketing Jobs AIs could soon automatically send personalized
marketing messages to customers without human intervention. This could involve developing
entire email marketing campaigns, determining the best times to send emails, segmenting audiences
for personalized messages, and even crafting email subject lines to increase open rates.
This can significantly enhance customer engagement and conversion rates.
In most companies, sales chat bots could soon use
advanced selling techniques to guide customers through the buying process.
And AIs could provide more personalized advertisements than before, which involves
changing the messages, words, and people that appear in ads based on the demographics,
beliefs, and values of the people seeing those advertisements.
6. Legal Jobs Whether it’s fair or not,
legal assistants could be among the first jobs to go as AIs begin to take over.
When it comes to legal research, AIs can quickly sift through vast amounts of legal text, laws,
and past cases to find relevant information. They can analyze legal contracts in under a
minute and they will get exponentially better at it over the coming years.
Legal virtual assistants could replace legal services typically provided by
highly educated lawyers. These virtual assistants will provide increasingly
advanced legal advice and guide users through increasingly complex legal
processes. This would make legal advice more accessible to the general public.
However, humans will still be needed for activities involving social skills
like presenting to judges and juries during court cases. And humans will need to handle
negotiation and client interactions—at least, for the foreseeable future.
7. Proofreading And Translating Jobs Proofreaders are already becoming a
dying breed because of automated editing tools that have existed for a few years.
Translating jobs are at great risk now as well. Automated,
real-time translation will become commonplace in many industries much faster than we expect.
This type of translation will exist in text, audio, and video format.
Human translators that used to be required to be physically present with clients could
be replaced by robots and computers that can perform most of the functions of this job.
8. Media And Communications Jobs
As of now, language models like ChatGPT produce writing that is extremely generic
and bland in many situations. But in 2 to 5 years, that could change dramatically.
People who write news articles could start to lose their jobs,
because AIs will automatically scan multiple sources on the internet to
write articles many times faster than humans. AIs are increasingly generating promotional content,
such as product descriptions, ad copy, and social media posts.
Even some news reporters may be at risk of losing their jobs within the next decade.
They could be replaced by photorealistic AI avatars in video format. At first,
these types of avatars could be used by non-traditional news companies. Eventually,
mainstream news organizations could adopt them far faster than anyone expects.
9. Accounting And Bookkeeping Jobs Accounting departments could be cut in
half in the not-too-distant future. AIs will increasingly perform automated bookkeeping,
tracking, budgeting, auditing, and forecasting. They will create, send,
and pay invoices. They will generate pay roll reports and handle taxes. And thanks
to their increasing ability to extract information from PDFs containing all
types of information, humans wouldn’t be needed in most of these processes at all.
They will even automatically identify areas to save costs and report unusual transactions.
10. Manufacturing & Warehouse Jobs We already know that people who work
on assembly lines and in warehouses are increasingly being replaced by robots.
But, many office workers such as inventory analysts could be out of
a job in the near future as well. That’s because inventory management software
will begin to have AIs integrated with them and become increasingly automated.
There could be less of a need for supply chain analysts as AIs begin to handle all
aspects of supply chain management including procurement, routing,
analysis, and decision-making regarding shipments.
However, humans will still be needed for meetings with stakeholders for the foreseeable future.
The bottom line is, make sure you continually learn the highest demand skills in the job
market. And network with people you respect who can open new doors for you. If you do that,
you’ll likely be okay for the next several years.
Make sure to check the video description below for a link to a
Udacity course about AI that will give you high demand job skills. There’s also a link
to a free eBook with helpful ChatGPT prompts to help you reach your goals.
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