A number of industries are already seeing automation replacing a wide variety of jobs in various ways. Due to the fact that robots are more durable and require less maintenance than humans, industries are preferring to replace human-working jobs with robots, resulting in a more efficient and controllable workforce. However, this comes as a concern for the majority of employed humans.
Although the replacement will not be absolute, there will be a lot of jobs replaced by robots in the future. Here are 10 jobs that will see automation the earliest:
- Insurance: Artificial Intelligence can analyze interpret data and structure faster and better than human employees. It has already been tried by a firm in Japan, and is slowly reaching prototype phase in other locations.
- Bank tellers: After ATM and banking phone applications, now banks may replace humans with AI inside the banks too. A robot can easily process cash transactions, open accounts and do paperwork for loans in a fraction of time it takes for humans to do all that.
- Financial analyst: Artificial intelligence can easily predict future trends based on historical financial data. It will be much more accurate than a human financial analyst.
- Construction workers: One robot can be as strong and efficient as a number of human labourers, and carries a much lower risk of injury. Manual labor jobs may perhaps be under the most threat from automation.
- Inventory management: A robot can easily audit shelves for an out-of-stock item and restock the shelves according to categories.
- Farmers: Intelligent machines can do everything from milking a cow to picking apples. They can eradicate human farmers to a comprehensive extent.
- Taxi: Automated cars already exist, and efforts are being made to integrate them with GPS and location positioning. This can easily translate into automated taxi services.
- Manufacturing: Most manufacturing work is about precision and discipline. Artificial intelligence is already taking up a lot of jobs in factories.
- Journalism: Robots can write content and earnings reports efficiently and in much less time than human writers.
- Movies: Today, it is possible to bring back the deceased actors for a scene or two through advanced CGI. A number of movies have used this technique, and imaging technology is getting more and more lifelike. In the future, the performance industry may develop technology that completely eliminates the need for human performers.
Automation is a real problem that humans need to face before it is too late. There need to be efforts made to upgrade unskilled labour to a higher standard of work and living, and spread awareness about the problem of people’s jobs being lost. Since these robots and the whole technological era will usher in a whole new set of jobs, it is important to communicate this news to at-risk employees so that they may equip themselves with the skills to adapt.
