Will You Lose Your Job to a Robot?

Edward W Hackett
Feedium
Published in
3 min readFeb 28, 2022

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How Will AI and Robots Impact Your World?

The consensus among economists and computer experts is that you should be prepared for your job to disappear or be severely modified by the development and the deployment of increased intelligent machines.

Advances in robotics and AI are happening worldwide, and as time passes, these trends will only accelerate. The world needs these advances if we have any hope of producing enough food for everyone, combating global warming and our changing climate and if we wish to have medicine advanced for the betterment of humanity.

What Should You Do to Prepare Yourself for these Coming Changes?

It’s evident that some tasks are better performed by machines than any human can do. Let’s turn the situation around and ask, “What can humans do better than machines?”

The answer is, “Humans are better at being human than any machine is now or can be in the foreseeable future.” People care about each other, understand and sympathize with each other, and even tell jokes to other humans.

You MUST Humanize those Parts of Your Job that Machines Cannot Do.

An example would be a job as a waitperson in a restaurant. Machines are being built to deliver food to the table and, in some cases…

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Edward W Hackett
Feedium

residential contractor/designer — science, politics, economics, history, philosophy, blogging on economics https://medium.com/DDI, email ewhackett@gmail.