What Challenges Does Artificial Intelligence (AI) Place On Students Choosing A Career?

Are Machines Making Humans Obsolete?

When artificial intelligence gets good enough, could we all find ourselves replaced?

Oliver Burkeman | September 18, 2015

Suppose that, unlike me, you’re a fresh-faced youngster, just out of education, not yet beaten down by the meaninglessness of human existence, and looking to choose a career. Preferably one that won’t be made obsolete by technology within decades. Factory jobs are out. So is taxi-driving, thanks to driverless cars. But things aren’t looking great for accountants, lawyers or journalists, either; computers already handle the simpler bits of those jobs. Software can mark certain essays with an accuracy approaching that of teachers, and make medical diagnoses more accurately than doctors.

Source: http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/two-paths-toward-our-robot-future

<more at http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/18/are-machines-making-humans-obsolete; related links: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2015/03/25/lets-automate-all-the-lawyers/ (Let’s Automate All the Lawyers? March 25, 2015) and http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/two-paths-toward-our-robot-future (Two Paths Toward Our Robot Future. October 1, 2015)>