Robert Reich:
Well, there are certainly going to be jobs in improving A.I. and in installing and servicing A.I.
There are going to be a lot of jobs, inevitably important jobs, in critical thinking and assessment. But many professional jobs, the kind of jobs that people have spent a lot of money to get professional degrees for, may not be delivering. Even today, a lot of computer engineering jobs have been essentially automated away by A.I.
So the job market is going to change. Now, the caring jobs, the third category of jobs, the people who provide personal care, whether it’s childcare or eldercare, nurses, psychotherapists, people who are in the job of, if you will, empathy, their jobs will not easily be replaced by A.I. because the essence of caring jobs is humans, human touch, human contact, human caring.
A.I. may pretend and convince some people that there is a human being operating on the other side of the screen, but ultimately human touch is going to be incredibly important.
