These days, AI is everywhere, whether it is news, books, social media or everyday conversations. Everyone around seems to be talking about it. From startups and Fortune 500 companies to big tech giants. Each company’s founder is an AI fan. Why?
It is because AI is equal to ‘just in 5 seconds’ speed, time-savvy, tech-savvy and money-savvy nowadays. Due to AI automation, the workforce is a newsmaker. Be it laid off employees now and then.
According to the World Economic Forum, AI is unlikely to be able to replace jobs requiring human skills such as judgement, creativity, physical dexterity and emotional intelligence.
Therefore, let’s delve into the 7 jobs that AI can’t replace.
But before that, let’s understand what AI is.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) helps computers do tasks that normally need human thinking. It’s like teaching machines to learn, solve problems, understand language, and recognize images or patterns to make our work easier and faster.
7 Jobs That AI Can’t Replace
Jobs that are repetitive, simple and automated in nature are bound to be replaced by AI due to these four reasons:
- Theoretical/Rule based
- Better processing
- No burnout
- Cost-cutting
But, these reasons don’t apply to the 7 Jobs that are pinged below:
1. Programmers
There is no doubt that AI can perform raw and minimal coding on the command line. However, when it comes to strict coding, it is out of AI’s orbit. The manual work of debugging and designing hardcore code requires human effort and physical presence.
AI can do reasoning based on the fed data, but there is no guarantee of ethical reasoning in coding and programming principles, fulfilling client requirements, and identifying software UI design errors and successes.
2. HR Managers
The HR Manager’s job role would be irreplaceable because it requires emotional intelligence and a deeper level of understanding of human resources (its psychology).
AI can identify human behavioural patterns and biases. However, it cannot design human emotional reactions based on the identified patterns because human behaviours are unpredictable.
3. Project Managers
Project managers are the people who thrive on creativity, intuition and making decisions. Whereas AI thrives on Machine Learning (ML) output, which is based on fed data, not on human intuition.
AI can provide assistance from scheduling meetings to managing and automating tasks. Still, AI fails in taking hardcore and considerate project and leadership decisions.
It is safe to assume that the Project Manager job role will be alright because AI proves to be an add-on.
4. Athletics
Athletics don’t have to fear AI replacing them.Why? Because sports is all about spontaneity and split-second decisions more than 5 second generative AI content speed in chat.
Athletics changes and adapts their game strategies according to game rules not otherwise. AI robots sound robotic and mechanical when they start playing a match.
The audience who are cheering in the match loves raw and vulnerable moments of their favourite athletics. AI cannot mimic that particular eureka moment at that time despite 5 seconds speed.
5. Social Workers and Human Right Advocates
Social Workers and Human Right Advocates thrive on human relationships only.
What AI don’t have? AI can never have human values such as courage which is needed to stand up against corruption systems. Whereas, social workers work in backward areas where AI is unreachable.
As these people think emotionally and critically on human, gender and caste issues which AI can never dream to think about. Although AI can answer the issue, it can never question deeply.
6. Musicians
There is a trend called, ‘AI will replace Musicians’ which is running on social media. Earlier, ChatGPT faced copyright infringement cases based on its voice feature addition. Because this feature can copy a singer’s voice, compose melodies and generate music.
But not the style and tone of the singer. By the way, it cannot perform raag composition, feeling, facial expression and meaningful interpretation of songs. Why?
Because it doesn’t have any kind of ‘human creative satisfaction’ feature that measures the singing levels and leverage.
7. Chefs
You love it when an AI (robot) serves you food. It cleans your kitchen platform even better than you. You might assume, it can cook much better than you. Then, you are wrong. Why?
Because your definition of ‘good food’ is different from AI’s definition of ‘good food’. You mean a good food is about a homely taste in a tip of your tongue and an immersive sensory detailing whereas AI is all about recipes that have nothing to do with your emotional satisfaction and relationship with your food.
Chefs know exactly that. That’s why AI don’t work in their restaurant kitchens.
Plus sometimes, AI can lead to fire accidents if it gives one harsh or an incorrect command to other kitchen machines (that works on AI command line).
Chefs need to be in the kitchen to check machines, food ingredients supply, cooking and final garnishing of food that is going to be served to consumers. Chefs know the deep food detailing that AI cannot detect, smell or taste.
Final Thoughts
AI is for processing information and regular tasks. It is not there to feel and heal you. It can connect but it is not a human that you truly seek out to be with. Hence, it is proved that AI will never replace emotional driven job roles, it will stand there as a mere assistant or extension of your job work. So, don’t fear and be secure about your job.
FAQs
- What do the World Economic Forum’s Future of Jobs Reports say about jobs that cannot be replaced by AI?
It disclosed human empathy, creativity, manual skillbase, and ethical decision-making demanding jobs will not only survive but also grow.
- Why is the HR Manager’s role not replaced by AI?
Because an HR Manager’s role requires emotional intelligence and a deeper level of understanding of human resources (its psychology).
- What tasks can AI perform in the Music Industry?
AI can copy a singer’s voice, compose melodies and generate music.
- What human values AI don’t have?
AI doesn’t have human values like courage, understanding of unpredictable human behaviour, emotional intelligence, and active listening.
- Do AI cause fire accidents in kitchens?
Yes it can. Sometimes fire accidents were caused by AI’s incorrect command to other machines in the kitchen.
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