Myth Busting – Artificial Intelligence Will Take Your Job

Will artificial intelligence and robots take up your jobs in the coming years? Well, it’s time for myth busting, lets do this –

1. • Introduction
   • Will AI Take Over Humans One Day?
   • What Would AI Exactly Do?
     • Innovate at workplaces
     • Augment the productivity of employees
     • AI will explore new avenues of work

1. • Which Jobs Will It Automate?
   • How to Future Proof Your Career?
   • Conclusion

Introduction

AI applications intend to replace mundane processes. It automates repetitive work and allows one to focus on intelligent tasks. AI offers the speed and precision that businesses thrive for. With AI penetrating the lives of people, they think that they will lose their jobs. But this is not true.

World Economic Forum has some interesting observations in this regard– It suggests that by 2025 –

• Redundant roles will decline from being 15.4% of the workforce to 9% (6.4% decline)
• Emerging professions will grow from 7.8% to 13.5% (5.7% growth)

Will AI Take Over Humans One Day?

Undoubtedly, AI innovation has been revolutionary. It has helped humans replace manual labor and get smart solutions for real-world problems. Both the human mind and artificial intelligence function basis neural networks. Both follow cognitive approaches like solving a problem, reasoning, and executing any task. But, the difference does not lie in simpler tasks, but in tasks involving emotional touch. A human brain uses emotional intelligence and experience to provide a unique output. The AI brains are yet to evolve to that level and are dependent on data sets to perform any task.

To surpass human intelligence, AI needs to –

• Learn on its own by analyzing data and making its own decisions
• Communicate with other AI systems
• Be able to act without any human intervention

What Would AI Exactly Do?

So coming to the core of the question – What will AI actually do if not take away our jobs? To answer this question, let’s check what AI has to offer –

• Insurance underwriting
• Warehousing and manufacturing
• Customer service
• Data entry, data collection, and data processing
• Long haul trucking
• Production line evolution
• Local TV advertising
• Pharmaceutical discovery
• Banking services and retail checkout
• Outbound sales
• Front-line fast food service 
• A broader category named “Any Tasks That Can Be Learned .” 

How to Future Proof Your Career?

You need to be agile and adapt to new changes. To improve your employability, you should:

• Improve your technical skills. Learn emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, data analytics, business intelligence, cloud technology. Understand their role with respect to your job profile
• Develop your competencies like leadership, communication, innovation, etc.
• Be a “global” worker
• Develop a sound professional network outside your work limits
• Learn from industry gurus and experts from your field
• Keep a tab on industry and economic trends
• Keep reviewing your options for career progression
• Develop your emotional intelligence

Conclusion

Here are some takeaways from our topic- ‘Myth Busting – Artificial Intelligence Will Take Your Job’ –

• Humans have created AI. Even with great attempts to replicate human intelligence, it’s not likely that AI can overpower us.
• AI will replace human beings in some jobs. Positions that need manual labor may be automated in the future, but that is not AI domination. Take the example of computers and mobile devices. Did we become obsolete? No, computers and mobile phones became mainstream and helped in our day-to-day lives.
• There is a need to have ethical laws and regulations to avoid the misuse of AI.

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