If you look at jobs that have not changed in the modern (say, since 1910) age, you’ll get a good idea. And there are none. Priests are a good example of jobs which still kind of exist, but are very different in fraction of the population and in day-to-day activities.
There are LOTS of similar jobs, where face-to-face human contact is a large part of the value, or human accountability to other humans (someone to yell at if something goes wrong). Literally NONE of those jobs were unaaffected by the internet, and none will be unchanged by AI, over time.
One key reframing is to realize that “make more efficient” IS THE SAME THING as “steal jobs”. Whenever a robot makes someone’s work easier, faster, or otherwise better, it means the world needs fewer of those workers for a given level of output.
If you look at jobs that have not changed in the modern (say, since 1910) age, you’ll get a good idea. And there are none. Priests are a good example of jobs which still kind of exist, but are very different in fraction of the population and in day-to-day activities.
There are LOTS of similar jobs, where face-to-face human contact is a large part of the value, or human accountability to other humans (someone to yell at if something goes wrong). Literally NONE of those jobs were unaaffected by the internet, and none will be unchanged by AI, over time.
One key reframing is to realize that “make more efficient” IS THE SAME THING as “steal jobs”. Whenever a robot makes someone’s work easier, faster, or otherwise better, it means the world needs fewer of those workers for a given level of output.