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What are some jobs that robots/machines can't replace?
We've seen it throughout history. Technological innovation slowly replaces jobs once performed by humans. We no longer have the milkman, the elevator man, the "John Henry". We are seeing jobs on the verge of replacement, like the bank teller by the ATM, the store clerk by the automatic checkout counter. It's possible to foresee jobs like accountants, lawyers, doctors, and various other linear, left-brained type jobs being replaced in the future.
My question is, which jobs can NEVER be replaced through automation? Which jobs are inherently human?
8 Answers
- damlovashLv 69 years agoFavorite Answer
Politicians could easily be replaced as well. They're merely symbols, so a successful shift to a simulacrum would not be impossible.
From your list, I would say a doctor. At least a head doctor. Sometimes proper prognoses defy pure logic. A robot could very well make severe analytical mistakes while diagnosing a patient. Fatal mistakes.
It'd be dangerous to replace accountants and lawyers, as well, because machines could be taken advantage of by any humans around, and no one with a mind would be able to catch the obvious discrepancy, if the robots have been manipulated to allow it.
I think the jobs most in danger are menial jobs. The jobs poorer people rely on. Those with wealth and affluence will use said wealth and affluence to keep robots out of their realm.
If you notice, all of your examples are of such people. Poor African Americans were very prevalent as elevator men, and John Henry himself, well, there you have it.
- 9 years ago
Any job that requires making a decision based on human intuition or feelings. Manual labor doesn't require it so anything can be manufactured by robots. Retail sales doesn't require it so stores can be run without human workers. Food can be dispensed by customer choice and robotic servers so that's out. But things like, doctors and nurses, lawyers, ministers, child care givers, judges and some teachers are indispensable. No machine can replace them.
- 9 years ago
1) Politics: We will always have to have a person lead us, there will never be a robot voted into office
Other than that there's really nothing i can think of. Even a robot could be a politician, a better one even. It could look back in history through online databases and see what every single politician has done before, the calculate the pros and cons of different political choices based on past events. So scratch number 1, robots can do everything
- Anonymous9 years ago
Money made us to become a robot.
Reset is the only way around get rid out of the money and reprogram the humanity.
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- 7 years ago
I think any company that is going to have a robot do all service work is more likely to go bankrupt.
- Anonymous9 years ago
Prostitution.