Safe Job Fields

To remain essential to the production process, workers will have to make a never-before-seen transition. Rather than simply having the skills a person requires and moving to another routine job, workers will have to instead migrate to an occupation that is largely non-routine and therefore protected from automation. Depending on the company and how fast AI is being adopted, workers may have to do this rapidly and repeatedly to remain ahead of the advancing AI frontier (Ford, 2013, p. 2). This is largely dependent on how companies adopts AI and weather it is to replace workers or supplement them. Some of the less affected fields would be those that have less automation, such as I.T. professionals, graphic designers, photographers, electricians, chefs, hairdressers and the like. The tech industry will not be unaffected by the spread of AI, but they will be affected in a positive way. Jobs in the tech industry on categories such as the AI itself, drones, Robotics, data scientists, and so on will likely benefit from the spread (Koetsier, 2017, para 5-6). The product being developed (AI) is creating jobs in related tech fields and displacing other jobs. The media provided mentions jobs that are unlikely for automation are those that require creative knowledge or innovation. Such as:

 Media Arts Education Healthcare 

In a more in depth study conducted by Oxford University, they found that 47% of jobs are at high risk of being potentially automated in the future. The jobs lower on the risk scale include:  Management, Business, and Financial Computer, Engineering, and Science Education, Legal, Community Service, Arts, and Media</li> Healthcare</li> </ul> The figure shows that 47 percent of total US employment is at high risk, meaning that these careers will likely be automatable after some amount of time, perhaps a decade or two. It should also be noted that the higher the probability of a job being automated, the faster the implementation is likely to occur, meaning possibly within a few years (Frey & Osborne, 2013, pp. 38).