Politician. Not necessarily in its current form, but I suspect humans will continue to want to feel in some way involved in planning their own futures, and be willing to provide status and power to selected other humans who ostensibly represent them in that process, for as long as there are recognizable humans. (The selected representatives will grow less and less actually relevant to planning the future, but that has almost nothing at all to do with the matter. It’s not entirely clear to me how relevant to that they are now.)
Athlete. Again, not necessarily in its current form, but I suspect humans will continue to want to identify with humans who win in competitions of physical skill against other humans. To some degree I put soldier in the same bucket, but there are issues with identifying that as a safe job, and I find it more likely that we’ll replace soldiers with more effective machines as they become available than that we’ll replace athletes
Reality show contestant. This is a field where observing “people like me” rather than “people who are actually any good at what they’re doing” is the whole point, after all. Replacing them with more efficient machines would seem to miss the point altogether.
Parent. Dunno if that counts as a “job” by this post’s standards, but I think we will continue having humans raise other humans long past the point where we develop technology that’s better at it.
Sysadmin. Remember the wise words of Mel Brooks: “Fuck! Even in the future, nothing works!” I am fully confident I will be able to find employment until the singularity if I want to.
Likewise, I feel secure in computer security. Until computers actually get better at securing and attacking themselves than humans, the value that depends on keeping your system secure will continue to increase as automation does.
Politician. Not necessarily in its current form, but I suspect humans will continue to want to feel in some way involved in planning their own futures, and be willing to provide status and power to selected other humans who ostensibly represent them in that process, for as long as there are recognizable humans. (The selected representatives will grow less and less actually relevant to planning the future, but that has almost nothing at all to do with the matter. It’s not entirely clear to me how relevant to that they are now.)
Athlete. Again, not necessarily in its current form, but I suspect humans will continue to want to identify with humans who win in competitions of physical skill against other humans. To some degree I put soldier in the same bucket, but there are issues with identifying that as a safe job, and I find it more likely that we’ll replace soldiers with more effective machines as they become available than that we’ll replace athletes
Reality show contestant. This is a field where observing “people like me” rather than “people who are actually any good at what they’re doing” is the whole point, after all. Replacing them with more efficient machines would seem to miss the point altogether.
Parent. Dunno if that counts as a “job” by this post’s standards, but I think we will continue having humans raise other humans long past the point where we develop technology that’s better at it.
Sysadmin. Remember the wise words of Mel Brooks: “Fuck! Even in the future, nothing works!” I am fully confident I will be able to find employment until the singularity if I want to.
Likewise, I feel secure in computer security. Until computers actually get better at securing and attacking themselves than humans, the value that depends on keeping your system secure will continue to increase as automation does.