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[SCULLIBUNDO]

Well? Is Google going to be putting you out of a job in 2029?

 

[Moppet13]

My job will only exists as long as people don't trust machines. I'm a Table Games Dealer.

 

[Aylinato]

yes.

 

[RSP]

Creative sector, so probably not.

 

[sarcastor]

I'm a male hooker. So no

 

[Ataxia]

I'm joining the police. So not really. At least in my life time, anyway (thank god)

 

[Fury Sense]

title and body ask opposite questions >.>

can't replace unemployment!

 

[KuroNeeko]

I'm a male hooker. So no

 

[Servbot24]

Will there be robots designed to be bums?

 

[blainethemono]

I work with a robot that counts pills out into vials and labels them and serves them up on a conveyor belt. But I also have to fill up the hundreds of little cells of pills inside of it every day and take the vials off and put caps on them and stick them in baskets for the pharmacists to check. That's in addition to counting out pills manually since only the top few hundred meds are counted by the machine, typing up prescriptions, and all types of other tedious bullshit

 

[BigDug13]

I think education will be safe for awhile.

 

[Sneaky Gato]

I doubt butchers will be replaced in the future by robots. To many variables to take into account, Also people like forming relationships with them. Gets you the better meats.

 

[thenexus6]

Well..

Part time - serving coffee and food at cafe / restaurant - yes
Operating and assisting cameras - no

I won't be at the part time job by 2029 I hope though...

 

[Kyzon]

I'd love to see a robot top my sign spinning skills

 

[Basileus777]

In theory, no. But by 2029, my job will probably still exist. The question is, will robots join the union?

 

[Fury Sense]

I'd love to see a robot top my sign spinning skills

Helicopter bitch!

 

[gwarm01]

I work with a robot that counts pills out into vials and labels them and serves them up on a conveyor belt. But I also have to fill up the hundreds of little cells of pills inside of it every day and take the vials off and put caps on them and stick them in baskets for the pharmacists to check. That's in addition to counting out pills manually since only the top few hundred meds are counted by the machine, typing up prescriptions, and all types of other tedious bullshit

As a pharmacist, we are both screwed. Do you work in mail order?

 

[Kyzon]

Helicopter bitch!

That's hilarious due to the "helicopter" being a fundamental spinning trick

 

[Tesseract]

math will rule the 21st century, i'm fine.

 

[Intheflorsh]

I will be making the robots. But what if robots can build robots?

Spoiler

Shit.

 

[marvelharvey]

I'm currently a creative director at a games company, which I think is safe for the foreseeable future. But who knows? Maybe they'll be an automated process where one person fills in a webform:

Single player: true
Multiplayer: false
Coop: true
Visceral: true
Cinematic: true
Oscar worthy script: false
Micro transactions: true
Ingredients: Cod4 (32%), Bayonetta (27%), Civ 5 (19%), Scrabble (12%), Mirrors Edge (8%), Final Fight (5%), Mario Kart (2%), Kiss Chase (1%), random game (1%).

Presses the 'generate game design' button, waits a few seconds and out pops a design document.

Will there be robots designed to be bums?

Yes, there are robot bums in Futurama's year 3000, our most accurate prediction of the future.

 

[GCX]

Here's a study by Oxford University where you can check the probability of whether robots will take over your job:

http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk/site..._Future_of_Employment_OMS_Working_Paper_1.pdf

 

[Spaghetti]

no but they can replace the indians who replaced me

 

[SamRambles]

Graphic / web designer so hopefully not. Although if a designer 20 years ago looked at how instrumental computers are to design work now they would hang their heads in shame.

It's probably going to get more and more automated over time too, with advanced scripts and plugins taking even more precedence over the attribute creation system.

Still, computers aren't creative. Right?

 

[MikeHattsu]

Here's a study by Oxford University where you can check the probability of whether robots will take over your job:

http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk/site..._Future_of_Employment_OMS_Working_Paper_1.pdf

According to this it's 0.48 probability that robots will be programmers and I'll be out of a job.

 

[blainethemono]

As a pharmacist, we are both screwed. Do you work in mail order?

Retail at Rite Aid (formerly an Eckerd) at probably the busiest store in the city. It's actually not that bad when I don't have to deal with pissed off customers. I'd rather work in a hospital pharmacy or something but I don't have a cert or anything.

 

[titusandronicus]

Then we'll need people to fix and build the robots! So don't worry. New industries will be created.

Unless the robots build the robots of course.

 

[Authority]

There is no job that can't be replaced by artificial intelligence.

 

[Tesseract]

Then we'll need people to fix and build the robots! So don't worry. New industries will be created.

Unless the robots build the robots of course.

they will.

 

[jimi_dini]

yes.

Medical software engineer + reverse engineer.

 

[Cyan]

Everyone saying yes--put your hand down, fool.

 

[Cheesecakebobby]

My job is making robots. Pray that I'm not replaced.

Spoiler

Actually I teach English/ make material for language learning and I fully expect robots/ AIs could do the same thing.

 

[Tesseract]

carbs can't build robots.

 

[leroidys]

Yes to you title, no to your post. SDEs will be around as long as we have computers.

 

[Aiii]

Can robots design websites?

 

[BocoDragon]

Yup. I'm a designer (software, graphic design, product design)

Someday I'm sure they'll build AI that understands enough psychology, spatial theory, etc to generate this stuff... But not in my lifetime.

 

[Gemüsepizza]

Even if you have a job which can't be done by robots, you will probably be affected by an increase of robot usage, because people who lost their job or start an education will now target the jobs which can't be done by robots. And that means for example that the wages for these jobs will probably go down because there will be much more job applicants etc. Without a change in society and a different view on work this has a lot of potential for conflicts.

 

[Vilam]

Yup. Nice to work in a creative field.

 

[Thoraxes]

For my day job, I think a lot of the easier layouts and schematics of houses could be mostly done by machines. But there's still a lot that requires a human's thinking intuition to complete, so i'd say about half the people could be replaced at least.

 

[jb1234]

Classical pianist. ... I suppose it *could* happen but I doubt robots will ever have the ability to interpret music with the natural ease and spontaneity of a human.

 

[jimi_dini]

Everyone saying yes--put your hand down, fool.

The OP says "out of a job in 2029".

Do you really think every job will be replaced by then? It's not even possible to properly recognize voice (and what I mean with that is computers recognizing voice at least as good as humans do). And that's in the works for over 20 years.

At some point in the future, which could be in 500 or 1000 or maybe even 2000 years? Sure. But why should I care. I won't be alive at that point.

 

[Trent Strong]

Computers have already started to do my job, and in the near future they will do my job completely. I'm fucked.

 

[Whogie]

Yeah, I'm IT.

 

[Cyan]

The OP says "out of a job in 2029".

Obviously the OP and title are at odds, as others have noted. Point is, there aren't any jobs which won't be eventually replaceable by robots and AIs.

 

[Baconsaurus Rex]

I don't have a job. Can robots do nothing?

 

[zoukka]

If robots can illustrate, model and design games then yeah, I'll be out of a job.

 

[Dartastic]

We really need to figure out how to some equitable balance of income distribution now, because if there's not some shit is REALLY gonna hit the fan in the next 20 years.

 

[zoukka]

We really need to figure out how to some equitable balance of income distribution now, because if there's not some shit is REALLY gonna hit the fan in the next 20 years.

A robot needs more maintenance than a person working with minimum wage, I would think.

 

[jimi_dini]

Obviously the OP and title are at odds, as others have noted. Point is, there aren't any jobs which won't be eventually replaceable by robots and AIs.

I used the 2029 as reference. I mean I assumed that he didn't mean 1000 years in the future, but short-term future.

And I think that there is quite a chance, that humanity will kill themselves off before that in one way or another (with that, I mean the 1000 years future). Or at least go extremly backwards, because of climate change

We really need to figure out how to some equitable balance of income distribution now, because if there's not some shit is REALLY gonna hit the fan in the next 20 years.

.

 

[Paertan]

I program electronic devices. So if robots start designing robots my job is gone. But then the end of the world for us humans is pretty close as well.