Of these, the only professions that will hardly be replaced by the AI in the very near future are sportsmen (because competition among robots like the Boston Dynamics ones is a separate field, and it's pointless to fight them as a human), CxOs (because shareholders will still want a human in charge, even if they use AI as a tool), judges (for similar reasons), HR managers, and human entertainers for the human-specific traits.
The article is wrong on all the others, and the justifications are naive. Teachers are in fact listed as one of the most endangered jobs. For surgeons, see the da Vinci system. Therapy is already being automated thanks to chatbots, and they will very quickly become far more capable, by ingesting all your personal data (public social media activity, private messages with friends that you'll want to give them access to, diaries etc.) and instantly know you, vs. spending countless hours explaining yourself to a therapist before you can get any value.
Magicians? An android magician can perform tricks with perfect accuracy, tirelessly.
Event planners? Google Duplex could already call businesses with a human-sounding voice and schedule appointments, back in 2018. Event planners will soon be obsolete when Duplex can call ALL BUSINESSES AT ONCE.
Priests? ChatGPT has already been used to write sermons. It has "no soul" - yet. Before DALL-E and ChatGPT, we also thought creativity will never be taken away from humans. We were wrong.
Other jobs that may survive longer:
- 🤖 engineers — they’ll know how to use AI tools
- 👩🏻⚕️ caregivers, social workers
- 🤝 jobs involving negotiation (but not sales — AI avatars talking to you via webcam can read microexpressions and craft extremely persuasive pitches)
- 🏘️ realtors
- 👨🏻💼 consultants, solution architects— again, they’ll use AI tools and provide the human touch required by clients
- ⚒️ jobs utilizing human dexterity while it’s cheaper than specialized robots: cleaners, electricians, plumbers
