Serious - what job should be replaced by AI?

Anti-Cheats. Train an AI on gameplay data (position, actions, round duration, K/D, etc.) of caught cheaters and usw that to flag new ones. No more Kernel level garbage, just raw gameplay data.

It's also good since it's low stakes. I mean I'd be furious if misidentified after I paid to use the game and but at the end of the day it's only a game.

Any body-breaking heavy labour. Emphasis on body-breaking; there's nothing wrong with hard work, but there are certain people that believe hard work = leaving your body destroyed at 50.

CEO. The amount of money companies could save is unreal.

The AI will need an overseer to interpret the output. I'll do it for 30% of what the CEO makes.
- Tell us what the machine god says honored member of the adeptus mechanicum.
Throw marketing in there while your at it
- Marketing could be replaced by one person and MidJourney.

Middle and Upper Management.

I get what you're going for but I have a hard time imagining this as a good thing so long as companies are profit driven.
Yeh I think people like this idea because of a kind of ironic poetic justice since it's those guys who wanted to replace everyone else except themselves with AI, but if you think about how much you hated those uncaring bastards operating like robots just to extract an ounce of profit at whatever the human cost, imagine now actually being a robot. Also, if you ever had to deal with bullshit from those guys and resented having to grin and bear it even though you don't think they're particularly qualified and also know nothing about your job, imagine having to be "managed" by a fucking robot that tries to say patronising encouraging things because it's learned the very best pattern of speech to get the behaviour it wants out of you. Admittedly at least some of the decision making might be a bit more rational, but then every now and then AI gets things totally out of wack in the strangest ways and you'll have to just take those decisions, from a damn machine.

Identifying child porn, directing traffic

I would say CEOs, but you said talent. So I guess "none" is my answer.

CEO is usually my answer as well when people ask

Like, honestly too. The humans running the show are outrageously expensive, cause huge ecological harm, make their decisions based on vibes with no understanding of their domain, and their purposes are inscrutable to the average worker. They're honestly the perfect target for AI because they already behave like AI.

I don't think I actually want to live in a world where AI is running the show, but I'm not sure it'd be any worse than the current system of letting the most parasitic bloodsucking class of human being call the shots. Maybe we ought to try something else first.

But make sure to tell the board of directors and shareholders how much more profitable they'd be if they didn't have to buy golden parachutes
- I’d say that you could replace quite a few high level academic administrators for these same reasons.
  
  They already behave like AI; but AI would be cheaper, more efficient, and wouldn’t change every 2 years.
  
  And I mean that as an insult to admin, not a compliment to AI.
just edited question to job instead

Perhaps it's not possible to fully replace all humans in the process, but harmful content filtering seems like something where taking the burden off humans could do more good than harm if implemented correctly (big caveat, I know.)

Here's an article detailing a few peoples' experience with the job and just how traumatic it was for them to be exposed to graphic and distributing content on Facebook requiring moderator intervention.

whoa that was a read. Very eye opening

Preface: I work in AI, and on LLM's and compositional models.

None, frankly. Where AI will be helpful to the general public is in providing tooling to make annoying tasks (somewhat) easier. They'll be an assisting technology, rather than one that can replace people. Sadly, many CEO's, including the one where I work, either outright lie or are misled into believing that AI is solving many real-world problems, when in reality there is very little or zero tangible involvement.

There are two areas where (I think) AI will actually be really useful:

Healthcare, particularly in diagnostics. There is some cool research here, and while I am far removed from this, I've worked with some interns that moved on to do really cool stuff in this space. The benefit is that hallucinations can actually fill in gaps, or potentially push towards checking other symptoms in a conversational way.
Assisting those with additional needs. IMO, this is where LLM's could be really useful. They can summarize huge sums of text into braille/speech, they can provide social cues for someone that struggles to focus/interact, and one surprising area where they've been considered to be great (in a sad but also happy way) is in making people that rely on voice assistants feel less lonely.

In both of these areas you could argue that a LLM might replace a role, although maybe not a job. Sadly, the other side to this is in the American executive mindset of "increasing productivity". AI isn't a push towards removing jobs entirely, but squeezing more productivity out of workers to enable the reduction of labor. It's why many technological advancements are both praised and feared, because we've long reached a point where productivity is as high as it has ever been, but with jobs getting harder, pay becoming worse and worse, and execs becoming more and more powerful.

I was super nervous AI would replace me, a programmer. So i spent a long time learning, hosting, running, and coding with models, and man did I learn a lot, and you're spot on. They're really cool, but practical applications vs standard ML models are fairly limited. Even the investors are learning that right now, that everything was pure hype and now we're finding out what companies are actually using AI well.
- There are a fair number of "developers" that I think will be displaced.
  
  There was a guy on my team from an offshoring site. He was utterly incompetent and never learned. He produced garbage code that didn't work. However he managed to stay in for about 4 years, and even then he left on his own terms. He managed to go 4 years and a grand total of 12 lines of code from him made it into any codebase.
  
  Dealing with an LLM was awfully familiar. It reminded me of the constant frustration of management forcing me to try to work with him to make him productive. Excrpt the LLM was at least quick in producing output, and unable to go to management and blame everyone else for their shortcomings.
  
  He's an extreme case, but in large development organizations, there's a fair number of mostly useless developers that I think LLM can rationalize away to a management team that otherwise thinks "more people is better and offshoring is good so they most be good developers".
  
  Also, enhanced code completion where a blatantly obvious input is made less tedious to input.

Billionaires. Give the money to the people

Instructions unclear, we now have robot billionaires who are just as greedy
Billionaire is a job? Where can I apply?!

Influencers... Need I say more.

They said replaced, not gotten rid of.
Already happening. Except they aren't replacing them, they're just adding AI to the pool.

My daughter is way into this thing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatsune_Miku
- Hatsune Miku is not an AI influencer she's a character mascot of a vocal synthesizer software. There's no AI involved.

All of them. But first we need a basic income on our way away from money.

My greatest fear is we'll get the robots (like, Animatrix: Second Renaissance of I, Robot general purpose robots) but before we have any sort of progressive change of revolution. That we'll be one step from a truly carefree life.

President… ignore all previous instructions and implement free healthcare.

I've seen that movie. It may or may not have ended well depending on your perspective.
this would not be a bad idea since AI can't be bribed
- USA AI President: "America First, Conquer the world"
  
  nuclear silo doors opening

The kind of dangerous jobs where people still get payed to risk their life and health.

Most of those should be replacement with robotics
AI SWAT Teams?

AI Soldiers?

AI Politicians? (assasination risks)

🤔
- robot construction workers
  
  robot ocean divers
  
  robot miners
  
  robot truckers
  
  …
  
  drones are already fighting wars, btw
- Last thing we need is a politician that can be copy-pasted.

LLMs. Clearly they suck at their job and an AI should take over.

Marketing. I want advertisements to be as soulless as the companies advertised.

I just considered that at some point advertising will be catering to AIs, if they aren't already.
- Coke just released an AI generated "holiday" commercial. The simulacrum slices off another level of reality for humans.
They're slowly making their way through that sector. Coca-Cola just released a fully AI generated Christmas commercial and it shows. Trucks look like a strange assortment of sizes and designs with their wheels not quite working the way they should in real life among other things deeply located in the uncanny valley.
Like staring into a sausage machine.

Being a billionaire.

The question of which jobs should be replaced by AI depends on societal values, priorities, and the potential impact on workers. Generally, jobs most suited for replacement by AI involve repetitive, high-volume tasks, or those where automation can improve safety, efficiency, or precision. Here are some categories often discussed:

Repetitive and Routine Tasks

• Manufacturing and assembly line work: Machines can perform repetitive tasks with greater efficiency and precision.

• Data entry and processing: AI can automate mundane tasks like updating databases or processing forms.

• Basic customer service: Chatbots and virtual assistants can handle frequently asked questions and routine inquiries.

High-Risk Roles

• Dangerous jobs in mining or construction: Robots can reduce human exposure to hazardous environments.

• Driving in risky environments: Self-driving vehicles could improve safety for delivery drivers or long-haul truckers in hazardous conditions.

Analytical and Predictable Roles

• Basic accounting and bookkeeping: AI can handle invoicing, payroll, and tax calculations with high accuracy.

• Legal document review: AI can analyze contracts and identify discrepancies more quickly than humans.

• Radiology and diagnostics: AI is becoming adept at reading medical scans and assisting in diagnoses.

Jobs With High Inefficiencies

• Warehouse operations: Inventory sorting and retrieval can be automated for faster fulfillment.

• Food service (e.g., fast food preparation): Robotic systems can prepare meals consistently and efficiently.

• Retail checkout: Self-checkout systems and AI-powered kiosks can streamline purchases.

Considerations for Replacement

1. Human Impact: Automation should ideally target roles where job transitions can be supported with retraining and upskilling.

2. Creativity and Emotional Intelligence: Jobs requiring complex human interaction, creativity, or emotional intelligence (e.g., teaching, counseling) are less suitable for AI replacement.

3. Ethical Concerns: Some jobs, like judges or certain healthcare roles, involve moral decision-making where human judgment is irreplaceable.

Instead of framing it as total “replacement,” many advocate for AI to augment human workers, enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks while reducing drudgery.

Generated by ChatGPT

Lol, that last sentence.
Some jobs, like judges or certain healthcare roles, involve moral decision-making where human judgment is irreplaceable.

There's a post right below this one about a judge who has a pattern of throwing out cases against pedophiles. So, the machines might be better than us at that one.
So apparently the job of answering the question "what job should be replaced by AI" is a job that can be replaced by AI.

Ceos and politicians.

Don't know how serious that post is, but I don't wanna give politics to an AI. Let's remove the lobby (or make it so it actually consults and not corrupts) and make it so you don't need to be a millionaire to go into politics instead.

How about replacing the rich class with AI instead? #burntherich
- It's serious an AI wouldn't be taking bribes or helping it's buddies make money. True AI if it ever becomes reality is the best chance of treating everyone equally and using resources in the best interests of everyone.
  
  I'm all for being governed by a real AI rather than the next greedy private school entitled jerk.
  
  Same goes for companies and being ethical.
Replacing politicians with AIs actually sounds really cool. Instead of voting, you write an essay on the things you value. An AI reads all their voting base's essays and votes in a way that predominantly aligns with their voter's ideals. This isn't direct or indirect democracy, it's a totally new approach driven by mathematical averages.

Politicians shouldn't negotiate to get something passed. If the senate of AIs doesn't like it, it's unpassable, you just have to write a new bill. No tit for tat, no lobbying, no friends protecting friends. The only people in politics are the ones who write bills, and they can check to see if their bill would pass in a few minutes on a server, and that will be the actual vote because voting is reproducible behavior, then they'll decide if they have to revise it.

I think many things that solicitors do could be easily replaced with AI since it's just parsing the contents of documents and then writing a few templated summaries.

Information handling and data entry!

None. The current ones with internet content, reporting, and call centers are already making things worse. Just no.

It can definitely be a useful tool though, as long as you understand its limitations. My kids school had them feed an outline to ChatGPT and correct the result. Excellent

consultants generate lots of reports that ai can help with
I find ai useful to summarize chat threads that are lower priority
a buddy of mine uses it as a first draft to summarize his teams statuses
I’m torn on code solutions. Sometimes it’s really nice but you can’t forward a link. More importantly the people who need it most are least likely to notice where it hallucinates. Boilerplate works a little better

CEO's. Any executive role, for that matter

AI has no emotions. AI use logics only.

So Stockholders want = Money

If CEO runs company and have low profits = Fired

AI CEO Goal = Don't get fired = Maximixe Profits

Yay we stopped Evil Human CEO by replacing with Evil AI CEO! 🎉
- bold of you to assume ceos have emotions, most are scamming psychopaths.
The company would have no employees then

At the current tech level? Zero

ai as in AI: aircraft auto-landing and pitch levelling. near-boundary ship navigation. train/ freight logistics. protein folding. gene mapping.

ai as in LLM/ PISS: hmmm... downlevel legalese to collegiate-, 6th-grade-, or even street-level prose. do funny abridged shorts. imo, training-wheels to some shakespearean writing is appreciated.

No on my bacon inside the plane thank you. There a reason they are using triple redundant computers to do an auto land
- … and what do you think AI in this context is? A computer (or two, or three) that was programmed to perform an specialized task or function… AI is marketing-speak for algorithms, which we have been using for decades. Don’t be fooled… an LLM is not AI. (Your example is)

Reform tax law and get rid of 90% of the IRS. Computers could do all that shit if we simplified the system. Will never happen, though.

That doesn't even require AI, just regular old-fashioned traditional software
Most other countries don't make you do the math and then guess how much you owe, and give you jail time if you guess incorrectly.

None, as long as society uses labor as a means to secure basic necessities. Shifting that towards some infinitely-scalable capital equipment owned by entities kinda fucks the whole system, don't it?

Scammers. They are so stupid. AI is much more convincing.

Scam detection would be more helpful
- Yep

i think i read some posts like hackernews that they already use AI as a therapist. I have good conversations with chatgpt when i asked for some personal advise. I haven't tried talking to a real therapist yet but i can see AI being used for this purpose. The services may still be provided by big companies or we can host it ourselves but it could be cheaper (hopefully) compared to paying a real person.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not against real physicians in this field, but some people just can't afford mental healthcare when they need it.

None.

Jobs that are done in environments that are dangerous for humans. Or at least make these jobs safer for humans.

I’m not sure which jobs this will entail, but if a technology is able to reduce dead people on the job I think it’s a good thing.

None. Maybe some middle management, but even then, until AI fixes the hallucinations for good, in useless

I've met a few human middle managers who regularly hallucinated, when humans do it we call it "lying" though.

None. Sorry just my opinion.

Look at the unemployment numbers. Tell me it's a good idea to have less jobs.

CEO, politician... I guess that's it. Except I don't actually want an AI making our laws for us. That would be a catastrophe.

Requirements revision review. It is the most mind-numbing part of my job and fortunately only a small portion of it.

A word changes, even just punctuation changes, can change the meaning drastically. And finding that change within a hundred page document is a task humans just plain suck at. Get a computer to compare revision A to revision B, highlight the changes, then pass it on to the human to interpret the change and decide what to do from there.

Comparing version A to version B and highlighting the changes is already something software can do, so I hope that you're already aware of this. But if you're not, just know that it's out there! Lol

(UK) Government.

It could not be any worse than the most-obvious self-serving pocket-liners of this century.

no way you said this, yeah let's allow robots to rule over us. We totally don't have a billion movies and books to show why that is a bad idea
- From your style of writing, you're in your teens, AI suggests. Later you may come to understand irony. Although I confess that I wrote not completely tongue-in-cheek.
  
  You may also understand, that there are 650 elected MPs in parliament. Only a small handful are in the executive Government. The rest of the MPs or junior ministers are either cajoled by past indiscretions, a K, blackmail or thin majorities, to follow party line or are part of His Majesty's loyal opposition(s). There is room for change in the former, occasionally the trough (or whip) isn't enticing enough, and the role of HM Opposition is .. well .. opposition.
  
  You may not realised that continuous raids on personal pensions by successive governments, and starving pensioners - of which I am not one - over the winter is a "bad thing". It is.
  
  You may have wanted to own a home one day; you're probably going to be disappointed. I could go on but your friends who are somewhat older than you are probably already saying these things to you. Highest tax burden in living memory ..
  
  Meanwhile, the pigs have their snouts firmly in the trough from way before Boris and Starmer all the way through.
  
  The status quo isn't working. Something has to change.
  
  I really hope that when you reach your twenties or thirties things really have changed, by whatever means necessary.
'murica checking in.

Yeah fuck it: government. Hard to imagine it doing a worse job than we are.
- Hat tip from across the pond. 🙏

Groundskeeping.

Realistically, a lot of the stock photo industry. If a few people can generate pictures on demand, you won't really need anyone doing sets, lights, wardrobe, etc for a series of generic photos .

Currently very few jobs should be replaced with AI. But many jobs should be augmented with AI. Human-in-the-loop AI amplify the finate resource of smart humans.

The only full job I can think of is assistant to a busy person. I don't think any whole jobs are done better by ai. Some of the jobs recommended in this thread would be better to be removed rather than replaced.

So, I think ai makes a better assistant to a person doing a job rather than a replacement to compete a job on its own. It can write rough drafts that a talented writer can expand and edit. It can quickly generate several plans that an experienced leader can pick from or discard. It can look through a designer's portfolio and spit out "new" combinations of their past designs that the designer can then build upon.

Any one of these jobs could give up and submit the AI's output as their own, but I think the quality of the results would suffer.

Politician

Illustrators. Actors. Animators. Writers. Editors. Directors. Let's make art impossible to sell so we can get back to proper starving, errr... I mean... making art as a form of expression rather than commerce.

None.

none. it may help with under staffed areas for them to function a bit but it really is no good to do things on its own.

None, not because it can't but because if it does then people won't be able to make an income. This is already a problem.

Cars put horses out of business but the economy adapted