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My guess is that the jobs that require professional licenses or have a high degree of discretion and liability due to potential harm will always have humans in charge even if assisted by robots and AI.

For example, I have a brother who works in back office operations for a major firm in the financial services industry. He holds a full set of securities licenses and his job routinely involves transactions and tasks for many millions of dollars. He often has to diagnose and remedy complicated issues. I cannot imagine anyone with a problem demanding "Put me through to the AI system."

Similarly, it is hard for me to imagine anyone trusting AI and robots to provide care in a hospital or nursing home without humans exercising close supervision. And I cannot think of a robot lawyer arguing a case to a jury except in comedic terms.

I do look forward though to the day -- soon I hope -- when diligent, dignified, polite, fluent English speaking robots will tend to the crops and landscaping and commercial and household tasks instead of the hordes of illegal immigrants we have now.

My guess is that the jobs that require professional licenses or have a high degree of discretion and liability due to potential harm will always have humans in charge even if assisted by robots and AI.
For example, I have a brother who works in back office operations for a major firm in the financial services industry. He holds a full set of securities licenses and his job routinely involves transactions and tasks for many millions of dollars. He often has to diagnose and remedy complicated issues. I cannot imagine anyone with a problem demanding “Put me through to the AI system.”

Similarly, it is hard for me to imagine anyone trusting AI and robots to provide care in a hospital or nursing home without humans exercising close supervision. And I cannot think of a robot lawyer arguing a case to a jury except in comedic terms.

I do look forward though to the day — soon I hope — when diligent, dignified, polite, fluent English speaking robots will tend to the crops and landscaping and commercial and household tasks instead of the hordes of illegal immigrants we have now.

Complicated surgery is done robotically already and AI is well suited for dealing with what are now simple GP office visits.

Integration of AI is taking things to a whole new level

They will just simplify process so that complex jobs can be turned over to AI. It may not eliminate every job, but it will eliminate a lot of jobs.

There is only so far one can take the idea about new jobs being created when every computer or AI system replaces hundreds of jobs in each industry.