Artificial Intelligence For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 18

Ten Occupational Categories that AI Can’t Replace

IN THIS CHAPTER

Interacting with humans

Being creative

Using intuition

This book has spent a lot of time telling you about how AI and humans differ and demonstrating that humans have absolutely nothing to worry about. Yes, some jobs will go away, but as described in Chapter 17, the use of AI will actually create a wealth of new jobs — most of them a lot more interesting than working on an assembly line. The new jobs that humans will have rely on the areas of intelligence (as described in Chapter 1) that an AI simply can’t master. In fact, the inability of AI to master so many areas of human thought will keep many people in their current occupations, which is the point of this chapter.

You may find that your current occupation is safe from AI replacement when it falls into specific categories, with human interaction, creativity, and using intuition being the most prevalent. However, this chapter touches on only the tip of the iceberg. Fear mongering by certain individuals (see “Humans wouldn't be able to control a superintelligent ...