What jobs in the UK are not affected by AI?
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What sectors are not prone to job losses due to AI coming in. It is obviously being used in various ways but what types of sectors are not going to be impacted badly.
Maleficent_Day_3869@reddit
AI can’t do my job. i’d like to see AI run after a toddler who is chasing another child around with scissors
Da5ren@reddit
No, but if AI replaces all of our jobs, we will all be able to watch our own kids. So in a roundabout way, it will replace your job.
J1M7nine@reddit
Sound like a job for ED209
Forsaken_Yesterday59@reddit
Why are you allowing toddlers to have scissors?
A bit AI wouldn’t allow that
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
I’m sure a robot will be able to detect a human carrying a metal object that isn’t supposed to be there…
Reactions would be far quicker than a human being.
Basic physics really.
InternetUser_404@reddit
https://www.youtube.com/live/luU57hMhkak
Lollygagger105@reddit
That’s a bit freaky
Lollygagger105@reddit
Maybe AI will be in robot form with laser eyes or something to stop that nonsense 🤣
Maleficent_Day_3869@reddit
if we reach that stage we deserve to go extinct tbh
-Rhymenocerous-@reddit
AI wont be able to take my job as a risk assessor. (Legionella)
Maybe one day but for the foreseeable future defo not.
No-Trifle-597@reddit
Nearly all of them currently, outside of tech.
And all manual jobs pretty much.
luffyuk@reddit
Professional sports person or musician.
Eventually robots will be better at these things, but people will always prefer the live human element.
Heypisshands@reddit
Ai wont be able to unblock a 6 inch shite thats stuck in a 4 inch pipe.
evertonblue@reddit
It’s doing it already. I had a broken toilet this week, and Claude helped me fix it myself rather than getting a plumber.
I described the problem and took various pictures, and it told me what was wrong, what part I needed and how to replace it.
So while it didn’t fix it - I was able to do it myself where I would have had to pay a plumber before.
humblepaul@reddit
No, but also robot with AI will.
laudable_lurker@reddit
Will it ever be worth the money to create a robot that delves its robotic nubbins into S-bends etc.? A robot capable of navigating stairs, rough terrain, and not being damaged by its clients?
Tradesmen will not be out of jobs in the next century
Still-Consideration6@reddit
But as with website design in the 90s every man and his dog will become tradesmen and the pay will fall to survival level with all the ,risks, lack of job security amd physical/mental wear and tear still present
randomguuid@reddit
Nope, they can nearly already do all of this. Most people are totally blissfully ignorant of the current frontier AI models and robotics.
Give it to the end of the decade. The factories for mass producing these robots are being built now.
quellflynn@reddit
the end user costs will be prohibitive, ensuring it won't get used as much as you'd think.
it costs £100 for a drain call out, but they'll charge you £150 to send a camera on a stick to tell you it's blocked.
if it was an ai robot, it's be £350 and it'll just be able to tell you it's blocked, describe what's blocking, try and order you some more blocking shit from Amazon and thank you for asking a great question.
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Think so too. Technology is developing so quickly with AI.
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Specialised equipment will probably delivered by a UAV, you unload it (or maybe it directs itself), place it next to your bog and it does the dirty stuff that it’s been programmed to do.
Probably another machine that can be unloaded or flies off to do a deep clean of the room.
They fly back to base UAV. Job done.
RobCarrol75@reddit
If you've ever had to pay for an emergency plumber, then yes.
Thestickleman@reddit
Good luck with that
randomguuid@reddit
Shh, let the blue collar workers have their moment.
SeoulGalmegi@reddit
No, it won't but:
AI will affect all of these jobs - if you're highly skilled and well experienced you'll be affected less. If you're just starting out or looking for a 'safer' career it'll be more of an issue.
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
More jobs will be created though that we don’t even know about yet.
There will have to be some sort of universal payment system though for every human.
SeoulGalmegi@reddit
I hope so, but I'm not that sure, on either count.
TheViscountRang@reddit
it is imperative that the 6 inch shite remains unharmed
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Future coprolite specimens…
Nice_Back_9977@reddit
Are you talking about plumbing or nursing?
NuclearMaterial@reddit
Shit is generally in the bed in hospital.
Slothjitzu@reddit
No, porn.
audigex@reddit
Yes
Crunchie64@reddit
Username checks out.
Tactical-Chunderer@reddit
Do we still say ‘rent boy’?
Voodoopulse@reddit
According to the FA it's a homophobic term
AmeliaOfAnsalon@reddit
rent boy and tactical chunderer both unaffected by AI, sources say
CouchKakapo@reddit
That's one for r/brandnewsentence
Demonthief27@reddit
Nah tactical chunder is a well known phrase. You throw up on a night out half way in so you can keep drinking
glasgowgeg@reddit
That subreddit is about entire sentences not said before, not the constituent phrases.
MasterpieceAlone8552@reddit
You can lease me if you want
Bowtie327@reddit
Ironically, working in IT support, less than you’d think. We’ve had “machine learning” monitoring tools for years that point out patterns and such, a lot of stuff has been rebranded as AI or we just don’t buy/use the shoe-horned tools that we don’t need
But no AI on Earth can explain to Janice the receptionist why turning the monitor off and on is not a reboot
BillWilberforce@reddit
The usually touted occupations are judges and pub/restaurant managers. However I wouldn't bank on it.
Sentencing is largely formulaic. Almost any crime that you're going to try, will have been heard at some point by the Court of Appeal or Supreme Court. Who will have given an idiots guide to what sentence to give out. So you might start with a baseline sentence of 2 years for a specific offence. Then add or decrease it based on extenuating and aggravating circumstances. An extra 3 months for this, 3 months less for that. Then take into account the defendants previous character (do they have previous and how much, are they a pillar of the community, do they have domestic obligations...) and if there are any prison places available.
So then it's largely just deciding what evidence is admissable, maintaining order in court, preventing witness and jury tampering etc.
There's bars in Korea with no staff. You literally just get the beer from a vending machine or a tap at your table. It wouldn't work in the UK. As we're a nation of pissheads, who can't be trusted.
https://youtu.be/xTIuarzzqBE?si=hFIaZJrrAmKEPiKK
Far_Call2993@reddit
Care workers, childcare, healthcare assistants, most things with 'care' in them...
Griff-Man17@reddit
You kidding? I can’t wait to get a robot who can help look after my mum. Care is gonna be one of the first to be supplements with robots.
onegirlandhergoat@reddit
They haven't seen the care robots being developed in Asia. With the ageing global population, whoever invents elderly care robots will rake it in.
LuqoDaApe@reddit
I shall now become a care-architect
BackgroundShallot5@reddit
Good job these jobs are valued and their staff duly compensated for their generally unclean and mentally straining work.
It's criminal how little these jobs pay then the general public has the audacity to expect these people to give a shit while they starve.
TheViscountRang@reddit
Trades, construction, front line hospitality, teaching, nursing and surgeons, police officers/paramedics/firefighters, there really is no shortage.
All new technologies create job loss, but the idea that AI is going to cause a job exodus is laughable. The only jobs being lost now are by companies who are jumping the gun and will regret it long-term. AI will eventually settle into being one of those everyday things that is used for background assistance, workflow streamlining and sadly, military application, as well as a highly-advanced search engine, but little more than that, with the odd maniac getting ridiculous media coverage for gimmicky things like robots that deliver food until they get kicked into the river Irwell.
terralearner@reddit
Yep Andrew Ng posted about the 'jobpocalypse' today:
tldr: scaremongering
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewyng_there-will-be-no-ai-jobpocalypse-the-story-activity-7460002148114796544-n-Al
I'm a developer, it's changed how I work a lot over the last 2 years. I still have a job.
northyj0e@reddit
You do, that's not the problem. The problem is that junior developers are much less efficient than even current agentic, coding specific LLMs. How do we get the next generation to be as good as you are with your level experience if they're not employed. AI is developing quicker than even a specific person can improve, nevermind the floor of a given profession.
How many tasks do you use LLMs for that, when you first started out in the workplace, you were assigned to do by someone of your seniority? That's the basis of the jobpocalypse, not how quickly it replaces high-skilled operators.
Tao626@reddit
Teaching is one that could be replaced to a certain degree.
The biggest hurdles of learning "on your own" without a teacher are: - Inability to ensure material is trustworthy when you're not familiar with it. - Inability to receive trustworthy feedback and guidance. - Inability to properly structure learning with a lack of your own knowledge.
Physical skills will likely demand a physical teacher for a long time to come as there's certain things and certain people that need to be shown first hand and in person. Somebody learning mechanics may need somebody physically there to show and demonstrate how to physically use a tool.
Academic, though? There's nothing really that demands mathematics is physically shown to you by a tired middle aged man at a whiteboard. The bullet points I mentioned could be achieved by AI, the same way people who do manage to teach themselves things to an equally high level manage to do so without an actual teacher.
Ok-Error2510@reddit
Maybe they can do those things, but one of the most fundamental skill you learn through school is interaction, not just with class mates, but with the first proper interaction with an adult that isnt a relation. These are life leasons that are vital to a healthy up bringing. Also how is a robot teacher gping to cope with everyones varying social skills and mental issues.
Tao626@reddit
Home schooling exists, though, which doesn't inherently prevent children from engaging in and learning social interaction as there are various other opportunities for that. Yes, school is a very convenient place to learn and be exposes to this, but it isn't the be all and end all either.
An AI teacher may cope slightly better in some instances as a child may not feel as self conscious of asking repeatedly to be told something or have it explained in different ways the same way they may with a teacher, especially one who isn't patient, is intimidating or unapproachable. The robot would repeat as many times as necessary, as well as be able to focus 100% of its time to that child (assuming it's on a computer, which it likely would be) as opposed to splitting between 30 other children and having to be mindful of holding everybody else in the classroom back, a problem that will never be solved otherwise without assigning every child a teacher.
When it comes to disability, I won't comment as I'm not at all educated on SEN.
GlitteringEbb7363@reddit
I'm increasingly thinking, however, that mass re-skilling is going to be pretty important. I've always been surprised how many people are hired specifically to manage a software programme or website platform. Think clerical stuff like payroll.
It's not like you are going to make all those folk redundant overnight, but at least their roles are going to change substantially.
TheViscountRang@reddit
Yeah that's possible - I'm an accountant so I can see the possibility of AI changing the role, but that will likely be streamlining the parts of the job that are relatively low-skilled like bookkeeping and including payroll. I already use AI myself to quickly locate HMRC manuals and technical guidance but, as much as the digital accounting softwares want you to believe, AI is a hell of a long way away from giving accurate tax and accounting advice to the point of replacing the trade. In fact at the moment, AI is, if anything, making my job more difficult with the amount of clients who decide they don't need an accountant because they have AI, then come to me because they've made a significant stream of cock-ups; or worse, the ones who take AI advice as gospel then challenge me to disprove it.
So I grant you it's definitely going to disrupt the market, but so did the internet when that became mainstream. Everything settles eventually because without jobs, the economy collapses.
AmeliaOfAnsalon@reddit
I work in microbiology and AI isn't making any kind of dent
randomguuid@reddit
Then you haven't been paying attention.
Morganx27@reddit
Or you've only been paying attention to AI companies' marketing. If the product lies to you, I don't much trust the people behind it, trying to force this useless shit into our lives.
randomguuid@reddit
You've no idea what you're talking about. You think large language models are all AI is. ChatGPT, Gemini?
This is what I mean, people have absolutely no idea.
Alphafold, for example, is arguably one of the most important advances in microbiology of the 21st century.
TachiH@reddit
Almost all of them. AI currently is overhyped. All the jobs being lost are just tech company restructuring that happens every year, just now the press are blaming it on AI. Used to be 4000 people sacked from a big tech firm barely made the news.
MeatGayzer69@reddit
Beggars outside of shops
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
We should have UBI by then as there won’t be any menial work left.
skibbin@reddit
Undertaker
Tao626@reddit
Yea, AI simply lacks the stage presence and ability to perform a tombstone piledriver.
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Robotics and AI combo.
IJM92@reddit
Didn’t he retire?
skibbin@reddit
*undertaker rising from coffin gif*
mantequilla69420@reddit
Every seen Terminator 2?
Super-Craig@reddit
Religious, spiritual and clergy roles are proving to be quite resistant to AI adaptation.
After completing our Care (carer, dentist, doctor, nurse) and Trades (crafter, electrician, labourer, plumber) Robots we moved on to more conservational positions the park and wildlife range. Park Rangers have already employed with great effect the use of drones to survey huge expanses of territory quickly and effectively. The next step is to replace the Rangers themselves.
Wandering_ENTJ@reddit
What so no robo pope?
Super-Craig@reddit
We created a Priest Robot, but we couldn't find a church or temple willing to facilitate field tests. Most were quite offended at the notion.
Wandering_ENTJ@reddit
I'm not surprised.
So about what you said before about the 2024 models being within the 95th percentile of skilled surgeons/tradesmen and the 2026 model being within the 99th.
What exactly is it that elevates the 2026 models to be amongst the top 1% of their human counterparts?
Super-Craig@reddit
So, to properly answer that question, I need to rollback a little to the 20 and 22 models.
The 2020 model was the combination of everything we knew, every part and process, miniaturised and stripped down to only the absolutely necessary essentials.
The 2022 model improved heavily upon the AI model but also incorporated touch sensors to compliment the audio, odor and vision sensor suite. It's not the first robot to have four of the five human senses, there are robots with all five. However the 22 model does represent the milestone of these functions existing within single omni unti designed for workplace enviroments.
The 2024 model increases the number of touch sensors from dozens to hundreds and has significantly boosted processing power. This the first robot able to function in real time without the process lag of previous robots, and is high reactive to it's enviroment. It's also here that we see the first instances of the AI ignoring what it's sensors are telling it and working off of learned history (past experiences).
The 2026 model includes thousands interconnected sensors with several thousand in each hand alone, and a huge increase in processing power. This unit is so reactionary that it responds faster than most humans are capable of and can perform all critical work tasks by memory and touch alone. These the units that can perform unassisted heart surgery or tooth implant and root canal dental treatments.
The 2028 model will be the robot that completely surpasses human capability.
Wandering_ENTJ@reddit
Can the 2024 model unblock a 6 inch shite thats stuck in a 4 inch pipe?
Super-Craig@reddit
Yes... undoubtedly, with 100% certainty, though I must say that's an oddly specific question, is there a story there?
Wandering_ENTJ@reddit
No. I just read it somewhere.
What about prostitution, hairdressing, undertaking and school teacher?
Super-Craig@reddit
The 2022 model is capable of performing the first three. Though a better model will mean a more proactive/reactive sex worker.
Teaching is something that the 2022 model would be fully capable of providing so long as it was teaching willing adults.
The 2024 model or better will have the processing power to support the kind of empathy required to moderate it's teaching techniques to accomodate younger students.
Wandering_ENTJ@reddit
What about psychology or therapist work?
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Absolutely will be taken over by AI.
Super-Craig@reddit
The same empathy programming that I suggested for the School Teacher is based off of an empathy suite that was purpose built for Therapist Robots that replaced most of our companies Therapists. However, our company still employs a few human Therapists, as several employees have said that they prefer a human Therapist, while others have plainly stated that they refuse to talk to "a machine" about their mental health problems.
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Yup.
Low-Rooster5398@reddit
Trades.
Affectionate-Award46@reddit
This is true. But I do wonder if eventually this will become a vicious circle at least with private clients when fewer and fewer can afford to hire or pay for services.
northyj0e@reddit
In the end it'll just be a load of trades doing work for each other, paying mates rates and doing everything in cash.
Otherwise_Craft9003@reddit
Unless lots of people whose jobs were lost retrain as trades...
FelisCantabrigiensis@reddit
Some trades. Plumber and electrician probably not soon. Bricklaying is already partly automated (the robots aren't widely deployed but they exist and work well), plastering is probably next. Carpentry will probably also be partly automated as soon as some portable milling machine robots arrive, portable decorating robots will probably also arrive soon.
Chipjb91@reddit
I wonder how long it’ll take robots to do my job, roofing. It’s easy work but logistically I imagine it’s a nightmare for automation to run smoothly.
randomguuid@reddit
AI isn't automation.
audigex@reddit
Yeah the fact is that we can’t all be tradesmen
If we start seeing significant unemployment, demand for whatever’s left will plummet
Johnnybw2@reddit
Demand will plummet and supply will increase,
randomguuid@reddit
People still say this because they aren't aware of the current frontier.
Commercial-Silver472@reddit
The problem with trades is it's too obvious to all the desk workers.
yossanator@reddit
Er, not so fast. Robotic House building.
scrotalsac69@reddit
County lines?
Glittering_Vast938@reddit
Drugs will be legal.
FogduckemonGo@reddit
Drone delivery straight to your doorstep.
Affectionate-Cost525@reddit
Im a dog walker who specialises in working with reactive/aggressive dogs.
Not only would you need an AI that can actually emotionally connect with animals, be able to predict how they're going to act/react and be able to work in areas with limited service regardless of the weather conditions.
But you'd also need to convince the owners to put their dogs lives in the hands of an AI.
Yeah I think I'm safe.
Itchy-Book402@reddit
Yeah, your customers will have plenty of time when they loose job because of AI.
Affectionate-Cost525@reddit
Except most of my clients pay me to work with their dogs because they genuinely can't do what I do.
For a lot of the dogs I work with, the socialisation they get from our group walks is the only time they actually get to be around other dogs.
Almost every parent could theoretically homeschool their children if they didn't have to work during the day. But you'd still see people paying to send their children to a better school because the level of care/education would be much higher.
meadowender@reddit
Ah but what are you going to do when AI replaces the dogs !!!
GlitteringEbb7363@reddit
On a separate note, to what extent have we hit 'peak dog'?
Given the whole phenomenon of massively increased dog ownership in recent years, with the corresponding increase in vet prices, is it all going to decline when folk realise how much all these ageing dogs are going to cost them?
Proper-Throwaway-23@reddit
Not OP, but I suspect this will happen to a degree. People are always going to want to own pets and dogs are close to the human heart on the whole. But without getting involved in the murky waters of industry politics, there is a growing issue with terrible breeding decisions, behavioural problems both genetic and created and an understandable lack of capable hands for dogs that aren't reasonably easy.
I expect we will see further restrictions in many places on what breeds are banned, how many dogs you can own, what situations permit you to own a dog, what is acceptable and fixable behaviour and what must be considered an immediate death sentance, whether dogs can be allowed off lead regardless of how well trained they are etc etc. And that is over and above the issues you have already highlighted which will definitely come in to play at least somewhat.
Whilst dogs are a privilege and not a right and will always cost money to care for, I would hate to see then become a thing only the rich can even contemplate. I dont think it is insane to see that as one potential eventuality sadly.
Proper-Throwaway-23@reddit
Trainer here, also specialising in reactivity and aggression as well as extreme predatory behaviours. There are threats to our closely aligned industries, but I believe they will be political and legislative rather than technological.
TapeDeckSlick@reddit
Town crier
Morganx27@reddit
"Hear ye! Hear ye! That's a really great question, now we're really drilling down into the important topics. The mayor is holding a fête. It's not just about partying -- it's an expression of our community's soul. Should I recommend places to source a hog, or help design banners?"
I think they could manage it
TurbulentLifeguard11@reddit
This is so niche! If AI were ever to do this, I wonder how long it would take AI to question why the hell it was doing it.
Ok-Error2510@reddit
Now i want to do it, that'd be a cool job. Dress up like a moron dandy and ring a bell, shouting alls well when it clearly isnt. Brilliant fun. For a week probably.
Existingsquid@reddit
Pretty much all of them, token cost will make ai out of reach of most businesses.
Jayandnightasmr@reddit
Yeah my last work place was still using a DOS program, and my current one relies on a ancient windows version. A lot of the check ins are still done on paper and scanned over.
They would have to overhaul the entire system to get A.I. to work, so they've given up for now other than for quick marketing ideas, and checking over email replies.
lost-in-midgard@reddit
This is the answer. People are falling for the drug dealer distribution model (cheap sample, then up the price when they're hooked). It is absolutely a bubble.
Valetudinous@reddit
Politicians.
Ok-Error2510@reddit
They're all Lizard people anyway
drivelhead@reddit
Sadly.
Sergeant_Fred_Colon@reddit
AI isn't all that powerful, all we need to do is get it to talk to Bill Shatner, the AI will fall in love with him then destroy itself when it realises Bill could never love it back.
I saw this in a documentary once so I know it will work.
Valetudinous@reddit
Company director.
dinkidoo7693@reddit
Hairdressers
joesus-christ@reddit
I've seen a phenomenal robot barber, robot chef and robot waiter this week, thanks to a few well-jointed arms and a lot of AI-packed cameras. They're even becoming available for consumers now (although the ones I've seen available to buy aren't quite good enough imo).
yossanator@reddit
Cheffing - for now. Seeing a lot of AI slop used to generate images for restaurant websites. Fucking terrible idea.
Ok-Error2510@reddit
Not just images, the description of a meal. Had a massive arguement with a new manager, gave him the menu for that week and he says "ill just run that through chatgpt, make it sound sexy" "no you fucking wont. I wrote that, im cooking it, you describe it the way i described it"
Aben_Zin@reddit
God can you imagine Star Trek replicators if they were based on current AI technology?
Nice_Back_9977@reddit
They'd be more like the ones from Red Dwarf or Hitchhiker's that can't get a cup of tea right
mittfh@reddit
Or, as in a meme doing the rounds, don't understand the nuances / contexts of "hot", so "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" is served at several thousand Kelvin, destroying the ship.
Also, don't allow an AI with no safeguards and a superiority complex learn it's fallible, give it Genuine People Personalities, or give it multiple personality cores... (and although more harmless, do you really want to implant an AI into a robotic cylinder vacuum cleaner? - even if it is confined to a small house inhabited by creatures who apparently only eat custard and toast).
AutomaticInitiative@reddit
Red Dwarf covered this with the toaster
Aben_Zin@reddit
"... almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea"
0rangesAndLemons@reddit
Does my head in to look at and instantly puts me off from eating at a place
GreyFoxNinjaFan@reddit
Teaching. Not in the public sector anyway. Not for a very long time.
TheLocalEcho@reddit
Watersports instructor.
drivelhead@reddit
"Now piss on his face"
thereisalwaysrescue@reddit
Nurses. Come and take my job!
drivelhead@reddit
Is that a cry for help?
anabsentfriend@reddit
Scaffolders
queljest456@reddit
Council jobs, for a while at least. AI is blocked on a lot of council systems due to fears about sensitive information we handle and servers hosted abroad. With how slow councils are to change things, I can't see this reluctance going away
imck1911@reddit
Permanently safe: nurses, care assistants, primary teachers, hair/nail/massage people, therapists, fine-dining chefs, musicians/actors, vets/zookeepers, people who teach hobbies (for example, music teachers and rock climbing instructors)
Temporarily safe: brickies, sparks, plumbers, carpenters, plasterers, farmers
lordsteve1@reddit
Any job that is mainly involving physical activities of some sort that can’t realistically be replaced with a machine doing them are mostly safe I reckon. Most care related jobs, trades, retail in shops handling physical stock, hospitality, medical jobs.
Yes machines will become more common in many areas but some jobs are just impossible without an actual human doing them. And things like AI might get pushed by companies to try and cut out admin roles etc but the actual workers on the “shop floor” so to speak still need to be there in many of these industries.
Fondant_Decent@reddit
Barber
WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit
It won't be long before barber "vending machines" are a thing.
Fondant_Decent@reddit
Highly doubt it, ain’t no one trusting a machine not to chop their face and ears off by mistake
WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit
You can already get devices that allow you to cut your own hair. It's not that many steps away to automate that process, especially for simple gents cuts.
If dudes could pay $4 for a simple haircut they would.
Fondant_Decent@reddit
Are you from the UK? Not sure if you have lived here given you are quoting dollars when we use pound sterling.
I’m almost 40 and spent my entire life here, can tell you right now. Kids who get a fresh trim and love fades will pay for a decent cut. It’s not a luxury spending £10-15, people also love a good banter when their get their haircut, ain’t no one chatting about football results with a robo barber
WhatYouLeaveBehind@reddit
Yes. I'm from London and live in Derbyshire. Next question dude. Did you think you did something there? Is it your first day on Reddit?
Honestly if you don't think Brits use the word "dudes" then you are getting out much.
People will pay for a decent cut. People will also pay for a cheap as chips cut. Some people don't want banter. They want a trim. That's it. Especially in this economy.
It's great you live the highlife fella. You do you. But there's absolutely an economy for cheap haircut that do the job.
I don't smoke. Its a waste on NHS resources.
Itchy-Book402@reddit
Not sure about that. When people loose jobs because of AI, first thing they will be saving money are luxuries like a barber. Just a clean shave will do.
rjm101@reddit
If you don't rely on a screen to do most of your job you're probably ok.
Wait until the robots with AI come. Then much more jobs are screwed.
spikewilliams2@reddit
AI prompt creator
cjgmmgjc85@reddit
Highway maintenance
Active_Driver_6043@reddit
Clinical Psychologists - specifically those concerning children.
No sane parent is going to stick their child in front of the laptop to resolve their emotional / behavioral problems
AnonymousTimewaster@reddit
Pretty much anything physical. Which is ironic because physical jobs were the ones first automated during the industrial revolution.
mcnoodles1@reddit
It will shift industries and stuff it won't reduce employment..The jobs it will wipe out will be low pay anyway and that person can go and do something else.
For proper careers it will just assist. Like an AI can do some of the work of a Dr but we still need a Drs sign off and with the waiting lists as they are that can only be a good thing.
LLMs really aren't that good to do the most basic jobs nor will they ever be. ColdFusion did a video on YouTube about a trial where they got LLMs to do freelance work on fiver. 96% of the work was between sub par and completely shite.
AutomaticInitiative@reddit
Energy is always gonna needs humans involved
feckarse-drinkgirls@reddit
Drug dealers
wernddupress@reddit
Pretty much every minimum wage job is manual and AI can’t replace It’s the graphic designers. Web guys and IT people on 50-150k that will be shafted. Which is great. I can now create a website in 30 mins and don’t need to pay some £1000 for the privilege. I can get legal advice, hr advice and marketing plan for less than £20 a month
I can’t get my windows cleaned. Chimney swept or car tyres changed, but I can afford to do it with the money I have saved by using AI.
AI is a tool. Available for everyone to use. Use it to you advantage. When the PC started arriving at the office, a lot of things changed in the office space, no more need for a typing pool. Telecommunications advanced so telephonists were no longer needed.
A job is simply an income stream - find another income stream either with or without AI
Slothjitzu@reddit
There is a reason people generally don’t do that though tbf.
wernddupress@reddit
I find that the only people that recommend we don’t do that are that are the ones charge $200 an hour for that advice. A specialist is something with knowledge in a particular field. Ai has access to all published human knowledge in any particular field. People don’t do it because they don’t realise. It has only recently become common knowledge. By all means. You pop to the local lawyer, Marketing agent, or HR specialist and pay them hundreds of any currency for the same information I am going to get……everyone has a choice. Some people used to refuse to trust sat nav’s and stick to map books for journey planning. Not many of them still around
Let people choose the tools they want for tasks and don’t judge them for it
Slothjitzu@reddit
Anybody who’s recommending that you get your legal advice from an LLM is a moron. And nah, I definitely will judge people for it.
wernddupress@reddit
You crack on with your expensive legal fees. You do realise that in the U.K. all laws are based on precedent legal cases. So with AI having access to every single legal record within seconds. As opposed to you hoping your solicitor can locate a precedence to assist you and then slapping a £250 minimum bill in front of you with their advice that it could go either way and they cannot guarantee a successful outcome. A solicitor is someone that has studied law for many years and therefore more knowledge than you in the field which is how they justify their fees. However no-one had planned for AI that has access to all human electronic records and the most likely outcome of the case based on all those previous human records. I pick ChatGPT or Claude’s extensive historical reviews and suggest outcome over any human being any day. Which is my right in the same way you choose to pay for a human being with less information
Wanchor97@reddit
HGV driving
BrilliantClarity@reddit
People don’t understand that if white collar workers indeed lose their jobs everyone will be affected
- less children in care if one parent is jobless
- more DIY, less traders AND more people will go into the trades
- less spend on hair, manicures, pedicures
Etc etc etc
The fact that a job cannot be automated by AI now doesn’t mean it won’t be impacted by a wider recession
However , although there will be a period of disruption , we will adapt like we always do.
EeEmCeTo@reddit
Monarch
scorcherchar@reddit
In theory all jobs can be affected. Really depends how things pan out. Currently AI has a lot of limitations but that might not be true forever.
I don't think AI could ever manage anything purely creative like music or art or writing to the level of a human. There is already sloppy quality AI slop flooding those markets though
NinjafoxVCB@reddit
Pretty much every single job that isn't 9-5 office work
mantequilla69420@reddit
All jobs will be impacted by Ai - if Ai wipes out White Collar jobs, those people will start looking for work in more physical Blue Collar Roles.
Present-Effect-9855@reddit
Most jobs. AI isn’t even advanced enough to handle higher level admin tasks without fucking them up. Maybe in the future if they improve but I suspect the bubble may burst before then.
prustage@reddit
So far - hairdressers. But who knows?
Itchy-Book402@reddit
We all will become hairdressers and barbers eventually
Itchy-Book402@reddit
Who's going to pay for a hairdresser or plumber, when 80% of society loses jobs. AI doesn't need haircut or sink unblocked.
RagerRambo@reddit
Escort service (fort now)
space_rhinos@reddit
Pilots
SocietyPleasant7461@reddit
AI is already embedded in some aircraft systems.
space_rhinos@reddit
Yeah I agree but we are still really far off pilots being out of the cockpit all together. At least 40 years. Plus just because the tech exists. Aviation and safety standards take AGES to catch up.
PracticeNo8733@reddit
Yes - but there is likely to be a push in the industry to reduce from two active pilots to one. Which could affect the jobs side of things quite a lot.
space_rhinos@reddit
And likely to be a fair amount of pushback to!
PracticeNo8733@reddit
Yes, but in many cases cost has won out as a driver in the airline industry.
space_rhinos@reddit
I would say to a degree yes, however safety has beaten costs. Remember post 9/11? 737 Max? If people get too uncomfortable about it all people will take their life in their own hands and probably refuse it for a while.
PracticeNo8733@reddit
Yeah - though only after actual incidents. Eg airline pilots being overworked/under-rested/needing second jobs is still an issue in some areas/tiers AFAIK.
space_rhinos@reddit
I accept that pilots jobs will change however I don’t really accept we will arrive at the point of no pilots in the near future. Coming from A PILOT.
PracticeNo8733@reddit
Yeah, hence me talking about single pilot operation rather than complete automation.
SocietyPleasant7461@reddit
For sure. I think regulations will still mean pilots will be required for many years to come.
deevo82@reddit
Erm...
space_rhinos@reddit
Would u get on a plane with your family if there was NOBODY flying the plane.
deevo82@reddit
For 90% of the journey, nobody is flying the plane.
Trains are autonomous now.
Planes are not far away.
space_rhinos@reddit
Hand flying planes hasn’t been the majority of a pilots jobs since the 60s. A lot more goes into being a pilot than touching the controls.
randomguuid@reddit
No jobs will be unaffected by AI. It's only a matter of time. The AI itself is nearly there, and robotics is catching up fast.
Before the end of the decade, AI + robotics will be capable enough to do almost all work. The problem then isn't the capability, it's the dwell time to implementation. Bureaucracy - legislation and GRC, are already the main blockers.
iffyClyro@reddit
Emergency Services, trades, anything physical.
Ill_Initiative6962@reddit
AI can’t even sharpen an image without fucking it up.
We got absolutely nothing to worry about.
martinbean@reddit
Given the number of people who are easily duped by AI-generated images and video, and with models only getting better, it absolutely terrifies me.
Cultural_Joke2025@reddit
Boss man kebab merchant.
Potential-Brief-8167@reddit
Historians?
commonmuck1@reddit
I use it every day! Makes my life so much easier. But I'm in an oversight position. It's people with low skill set or lack of general intelligence or ability to desire new skills that will be the victims of the AI revolution. But it's no different to the computer revolution of the 80s and 90s.
GhostLapF1@reddit
Anything involving physical problem solving in constantly changing environments feels relatively safe for now.
It’s much easier to automate repetitive office work than “this part doesn’t fit properly anymore and we need a solution by tomorrow morning”.
El_Bastardo_Grande@reddit
Anal bleaching.
Terrible-Bad-9002@reddit
Field archaeologist.
ObiSvenKenobi@reddit
Live theatre.
MeenaBeti@reddit
Teachers just off the top of my head
VooDooBooBooBear@reddit
You joking? Teachers are literally using AI to create their lesson plans. It won't be long before AI can give a lesson more accurate than a teacher couls
Dazz316@reddit
Christ no. AI isn't even remotely close at that level of discerning individual people's needs. It's good to use as a tool, but to replace a humans expertise above basic tasks isn't within it's wheelhouse.
AI is also coming up to breaking point. The hardware needs and power needs for the datacentre's have been climbing higher and higher exponentially. Other markets are struggling with the hardware demands and the supply simply isn't there, power consumption has been jumping each new generation and they're almost at the point they're needing their own dedicated power sources as they've been trying to get direct access to plants instead of via the same infrastructure everybody else needs.
Not to mention the ROI has been absolutely abysmal. The bubble is due to pop.
boringfantasy@reddit
Not affected directly, but have to deal with AI slop from students daily
seven-cents@reddit
Teachers are also using AI to create exam papers. Hopefully they're just using it as an efficiency tool before thoroughly checking, but you can bet that some of them aren't
CoconutBandita@reddit
I can see teachers being replaced by AI and then lower paid "classroom assistants" basically employed to do crowd control.
It wouldn't go well, but I can see it happening.
PracticeNo8733@reddit
I would look for stuff that involves physical/manual work in varying locations and situations. Particularly if the labour element is a smaller part of the overall cost so there's less pressure to automate.
TSC-99@reddit
Teaching in primary
MossTrinkets@reddit
AI bros are convinced it actually can and will, which I think is a good indication of how often they "babysit" their own children.
Avacado7145@reddit
Trades but they are hard unpleasant jobs and will become oversaturated long term.
GlitteringEbb7363@reddit
I think we will end up seeing the phenomenon of costly plumbers and sparkies as a temporary blip on what was always ultimately a fairly low paying occupation.
the_htg@reddit
Undertakers
Dazz316@reddit
He already retired.
KoMaMcNoob@reddit
Since you are specifying affected in a negative way, Cybersecurity has an even greater need right now.
The speed up of AI doesn't match how the playing field is affected.
He_ofshadowsandtouch@reddit
Trades
Less-Firefighter2419@reddit
Any job that includes actual human input and not rinse and repeat mate.
If your job requires human input but higher ups don't yet appreciate it, keep upskilling because you'd get laid off but you'd be hired soon after. Be in the position to command a stupidly high salary. Give it a few years.
Geetar-mumbles@reddit
I’m a hgv driver who delivers internal building supplies to building sites, renovations and shop fitters etc. Unfortunately I don’t think AI will be able to do my job for a long while. For a time I thought that self driving trucks were coming my way but it appears that I will continue to be stuck in this awful industry.
SocietyPleasant7461@reddit
Aerospace engineers
Victoriaspalace@reddit
The beauty industry, and I mean those that work in aesthetics specifically. My friends that work doing nails, lashes, and filler are still doing very well and their studios/clinics are busy.
boringfantasy@reddit
Trades
Ruddington9@reddit
Pimp
Ruddington9@reddit
Pump
SlowRs@reddit
Trades.
ATSOAS87@reddit
Depends on the trade.
Bricklaying robots exit.
DaddyK3tchup@reddit
Billionaire tech bros
skibbin@reddit
Burglar
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