Jobs For Humans In An AI World

Shanif Dhanani
Aug 27, 2017 · 1 min read

There was a recent article from The Economist describing what role humans will play in the job force as AI becomes a more embedded part of our lives. Their thesis is that humans will play a support role for AIs, providing it with the data that it needs to make its classifications and run its algorithms.

This is oddly similar to another author’s thesis, which I wrote about earlier, about the role humans would play in investment management as AI takes over there.

What’s interesting about The Economist’s article is that they seem to think that humans will only play a support role, doing low value grunt work like labeling and cleaning data.

I actually don’t believe this to be true, since every innovation in the history of humans has created more and larger industries than were imaginable before. At the very least, we’ll have a huge demand for engineers and data scientists, at least until the singularity, but on top of these highly technical roles, I bet you we’ll have a bunch of other industries grow in ways that we can’t predict right now.

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