It is time to wake up and smell the pixels of a new world run by artificial intelligence. Human distaste for inconvenience has created a system replacing people in their professions. AI is employed in exchange for lower labor costs and higher workload turnarounds. This may seem desirable for those not directly involved, but it will negatively affect the workplace of several professions. If you think you aren’t replaceable, think again. There is nothing you can do that AI can’t do better. Is your job at risk of being automated? Let’s look at a list of jobs AI has already begun taking over and may override soon.
Legal Work
Legal work requires extensive research, document review, and standard contract generation. Dealing with the law is tedious and demands frequent literature reviews for several cases that couldn’t be more different. Paralegals drowning in work have turned to legal research engines and contract analyzers to handle these tasks, which could replace them completely one day. AI can review thousands of contracts or legal precedents, at a low cost, and forecast case outcomes better than junior lawyers and assistants.
Copywriting and Content Creation
AI can develop ideas for blog posts, ads, social media content, and other creative tasks in seconds. AI can understand algorithms better than humans and utilize template-based writing for quicker results. There is a reduced need for entry-level copywriters and content freelancers for simple tasks, taking away opportunities and feeding into convenient inauthenticity.
Customer Service Concerns
Nothing is more annoying than typing out your utmost detailed frustration to be met with a faux sympathetic prerecorded message asking you to categorize your concern among pre-listed options. There are usually generic solutions for each one, and it ends there. You are barred from the choice to speak with a live agent until you’ve exhausted all other options. Chatbots and voice assistants resolve tier 1 to tier 2 customer issues across industries. However, AI will soon be able to handle all matters, eliminating the need for human agents.
Fast Food Orders
Taking fast food orders isn’t exactly rocket science. Companies have found that using AI reduces salary costs and increases efficiency. Human employees are still present to facilitate any issues, but AI reduces front-line cashier positions in quick-service restaurants. AI employees do not call in sick, and the service quality is not in decline during night shifts.
Automobile Diagnosis
Human mechanics give a vehicle a run-through and pinpoint what is causing problems. However, it may take a while, especially for more inconspicuous damages requiring special fees and longer turnarounds. AI can now be integrated into vehicles themselves or into machines that can perform predictive diagnosis and smart analysis to identify problems faster, cheaper, and more precisely than a human mechanic.
Retail Work
Retail workers facilitate the sales of services or products, which AI can easily replace, especially with the shift to online shopping. Self-checkout systems, smart shelves, and AI inventory take over human responsibility. AI can curate a personalized shopping experience and provide relevant product recommendations based on shopper habits. This might not be the norm now, but concerns with security and user proficiency will eventually be dealt with, and AI will become integrated into shops.
Art
Using AI to replicate human creativity is seen as taboo, especially when done for mass production and profit. AI reduces the need for drafts and revisions, which means fewer jobs for human illustrators, designers, and other creatives who’ve spent years honing their craft. AI can generate thousands of images at a time while staying consistent with an art style. This entices users to opt for this instead of dealing with human artists and revisions that cost more.
Music Composition
Similarly, AI music generators create music following prompts inputted by users. It is as easy as typing in “sad background song for an angsty movie,” and voila, you have your royalty-free film score. It may adapt to listener preference faster than human artists, but AI music falls flat on creativity, and the sounds produced are predictable and plain. This negative will not persist forever, though, as AI is used to curate playlists and soundtracks, which assists their learning and adapting to human taste.
News Reports
AI tools can now write story summaries, sports updates, weather reports, and breaking headlines, reducing the need for junior reporters and fact-checkers. AI can publish 24/7 and adapt to breaking news instantly for all outlets.
Voice Acting
AI is able to produce more diverse voice clips that can be edited conveniently to match the emotional tone of the message. Audiobooks, video games, narration, and virtual assistants have begun using AI-generated voices for lower-budget productions. Studios clone and manipulate a single voice to be used across many projects, which will soon permanently replace the need for multiple human actors.
Travel Itinerary
Booking a flight with travel agencies simplifies your trip since they book accommodations, flights, and activities at your destination. AI can now refer to online databases to create a complete itinerary, book hotels and flights, optimize the experience based on weather, and translate travel info and local customs for ease upon arrival. Its ability to do so is slowly making travel agents obsolete, especially for most DIY travelers.
Housekeeping
Even with the AI equipment available, we always find ourselves going back and cleaning up what these housekeeping machines have missed. However, companies quickly adjusted to these lapses and made significant improvements yearly, which are becoming cheaper in the long run than human staff. AI can handle several aspects of housekeeping and perform scheduled maintenance. Routine housekeeping tasks in hotels and hospitals are gradually being replaced by AI-assisted machines that monitor cleanliness via sensors and camera systems.
Waitstaff
AI ordering systems and food runners are being evaluated for their compatibility with taking and sending orders directly to the kitchen. Tablets and QR code menus eliminate the need for human servers. In addition, AI can easily manage persistent upsell recommendations and take orders faster. Food delivery can also be achieved through AI, which cuts labor costs and efficiently speeds up service.
Research Tools
Many professionals are judged based on the amount of research they contribute to their profession, which puts them under significant pressure. To save time on research and paperwork, researchers use AI to summarize academic papers to make them easier to consume. AI can simplify the research process by transforming literature into easy-to-digest summaries. Junior researcher roles become redundant and are outperformed by auto-summarization and citation tools.
Lab Work
Robotic systems are already used in the laboratory to perform delicate and skill-intensive procedures. Still, human intervention and interpretation are still a paramount part of laboratory processes. However, AI can increase lab result output without extra labor. It can easily perform tedious tests such as genomic testing and process high-volume samples in half the time and double the accuracy. Before you know it, procedures that require human confirmation will be adapted to be handled purely by automation and AI.
Construction Planning
Construction planning requires detailed work to ensure the stability and safety of each project. There are many aspects to construction planning, such as site surveying, 3D building information modeling, and determining scheduling and cost optimization. Plenty of software has begun automating architecture, project management, and construction administration, reducing the need for planners, estimators, and designers.
Financial Analysis
Financial analysis is a sensitive market that experiences regular fluctuations. Human analysis has been the tradition for many years, but the reliability of precise AI has shifted trust towards automation. AI can perform risk modeling, fraud detection, portfolio management, and market prediction. AI is able to pull up from international databases and refer to online sources to update and adjust predictions in real time. This increases efficiency and allows for quicker judgments.
Human Resources
Companies are beginning to skip initial live interviews for AI tools that screen resumes, conduct video interviews, and monitor employees to narrow down candidates. AI can now detect tone, confidence, and personality traits during video interviews. Although this claim is debatable, automated hiring and onboarding ensure a consistent, bias-reducing hiring system.
Security Staff
Having security to monitor in real time is the best way to prevent incidents and protect valuable merchandise. However, some incidents bypass the integrity of human security, which has led companies to look into AI surveillance systems that use facial recognition, motion detection, and anomaly detection. With AI, no human can be subdued or coerced, and authorities are alerted immediately. Multiple systems are engaged and can handle more work with fewer humans. AI never falls asleep, gets distracted, or requires breaks from surveillance.