As the whole world changes to keep up with AI, there are a few working people who might be looking over their shoulder anxiously.
After Bill Gates revealed the jobs that he thinks will survive the AI revolution, but there are also ones that are clearly at risk.
Bill Gates outlined the jobs he thinks AI can’t take
Of course, there are obviously going to be jobs that AI can’t take over for a good while yet.
It can’t do building, plumbing, or stonemasonry… just yet.
There are more physical jobs that even Grok will struggle to do, but those in the world of music, film, art and - unfortunately - journalism need to keep their wits about them.
It can be a great tool to help in all of those jobs, but ultimately, there should be a level of human creativity that is still celebrated.
Bill Gates, who - alongside his billionaire friends - knows a thing or two about AI, has revealed the jobs he thinks will be safe from artificial intelligence in years to come.
Sitting down on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Gates explained: “You know, like baseball. We won’t want to watch computers play baseball,
“So there’ll be some things that we reserve for ourselves, but in terms of making things and moving things, and growing food, over time, those will be basically solved problems.”
He also identified biology, energy expertise, and programming and software development among the jobs he thinks the robots will struggle with.
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So, which jobs are most at risk?
For a few careers, AI is already doing their job, and while humans might still have a role to play, the end of the line could be in sight as soon.
Research from Microsoft identified the most at risk professions, and some of them will come as no surprise.
Top of the list, as some will have deduced is translators and interpreters.
That work is already being done and - according to the research - 98 percent can be done by AI.
Then, historians, mathematicians, proofreaders, and automatic machine coders.
Writers and authors are high on the list, with AI capable of 85 percent of the work already.
Journalists? AI can do 81 percent of the work.
There is also bad news in this list for common jobs like concierges, teachers of various subjects including business and economics, switchboard operators - obviously - and even models.
In short, AI can and will start to do a lot of work for some people, as long as it remains cheaper than paying an actual human to do the work.
It’s a sad reality, but one that is coming down the pipeline for a good number of us.
How we react to this coming wave of technological unemployment is yet to be decided.