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With the huge popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), attention has quickly shifted to the impact such innovation could have on the job market.
Thousands of human roles are feared to disappear soon due to massive advances in automation, with it only becoming clear last month that the UK government privately believes a ‘significant number’ of civil service jobs will soon become obsolete.
Not to mention the growing civil war in Silicon Valley over whether rapidly evolving AI technology is a good thing or a bad thing.
Well, research suggests that air traffic controllers, midwives, librarians and those with sales careers have little to worry about, but if you work behind a bar, as a window cleaner or in customer service, the news isn’t so positive.
Nor are waiters and waitresses, who are at the highest risk of having their jobs performed by a robot at 72 percent, according to digital media company DailyAI.com.
Not far behind are shelf loaders, receptionists with 61 percent and train or tram drivers with 57 percent.
On the other end of the spectrum are doctors.
Overall, the risk of their tasks being automated is estimated to be about 18 percent, with nurses at 24 percent, paramedics at 27 percent, and dentists at 20 percent.
The estimates come true Office for National Statistics (ONS) analysis..
This research, originally published in 2019, calculated that around 1.5 million jobs in England are at high risk of some of their jobs being performed by AI in the future.
They include florists, bus drivers, cooks, cashiers and beauticians.
Barbers and barbers have a perhaps surprising 57 percent chance of being replaced by robots, electricians 50 percent and driving instructors 51 percent.
Meanwhile, architects, physical therapists, lawyers and web designers are among those with the lowest risk of automation impacting their role.
The same can be said of college professors and secondary school teachers, both of whom have a 20 percent chance that AI will affect them.
Staying on the education front, a survey published last month suggested that up to two-thirds of high school students are now using AI to do their homework.
What’s worse is that the survey also claimed that one in 10 teachers admitted they didn’t know.
Concern: There are fears that thousands of human roles will soon disappear due to massive advances in automation (stock image)
About 67 percent of young people surveyed admitted to using chatbots like ChatGPT to write essays or work for them.
Nearly half, 42 percent, said they use AI all the time to solve math problems, while 41 percent said it helped them write English essays.
After the launch of ChatGPT late last year, fears that software would eliminate human jobs first began to come to the fore.
It took the world by storm with its ability to perform eerily human professional tasks like writing emails and resumes.
Earlier this year, an expert said AI has the potential to replace 80 percent of human jobs “in the next few years.”
Ben Goertzel, an American-Brazilian tech executive, added that he didn’t see this as a negative as it would allow people to do “better things with their lives than working for a living.”
“Virtually any job involving paperwork should be automatable,” he said at the Web Summit in Rio de Janeiro in May.
This came after thousands of tech leaders, including Elon Musk, signed an open letter calling for a six-month pause in AI development.
They argued that companies are entering a “dangerous race” by advancing the technology so quickly, adding that it poses a “profound risk to society and humanity.”
AI-powered robots are already under development that can act as security guards, cleaners in hospitals and even take over the work of care home staff.
Experts say that by 2033 we will spend nearly 40 percent less time on household chores because so many of these tasks will be automated.