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It seems every day there is a new article on how the robots are going to take away our jobs. Economic experts suggest that it will, in fact, create more jobs which is just as lucky because some unexpected jobs are already being automated.
These are highly human-centred or specialised tasks that 10 years ago experts would have said ‘we’ll never be able to automate that’, yet it’s our reality today. In a test pitting Goldman Sachs, Cisco and Alston & Bird general counsels [lawyers] against a legal tech startup reviewing five NDA documents, the robot could achieve in 26 seconds with 94% accuracy what it took the lawyers 90 minutes to complete with an accuracy rate as low as 67%.
Similarly, recruitment advisors once had to apply human thinking to assessing an applicant's resume against a vacancy requirement, which is now all done by a machine. That means a machine is deciding your employability and whether you even have a chance to meet a real human to interview for the vacancy. Here are five more unexpected jobs that are being automated by artificial intelligence and robotics.
ANESTHESIOLOGISTS
These are the doctors that say ‘hello and goodnight’, you only get a brief meeting with them before nodding off, yet they are responsible for keeping you alive under some of the most difficult circumstances. They add $2,000 to most surgeries and consequently, are the highest-paid professionals in America. However, Johnson & Johnson have developed a system called Sedasys, which now only costs $150 per procedure.
JOCKEYS
Camel racing dates back way back to the 7th century and is still popular in places like Egypt, Australia and Dubai. Historically, lightweight children as young as two years old were used as jockeys. Thankfully this was outlawed in 2002 but that is still quite recent, some of those kids are still teenagers. So instead, Dubai is now using robotic jockeys, weighing merely a few pounds and the racing and gambling may continue.
REPORTERS
The Associated Press has earned 53 Pulitzers, it is responsible for counting the US elections since 1848 in national, state and local races. It operates 263 bureaus in 106 countries and since 2004, has used robots to automatically generate over 3,000 stories on earnings reports, with fewer errors that stories manually-written by humans.
CHEFS
You may have seen the automated kitchen making the rounds on social media. Two hands over a stove moving with human-like dexterity to prepare Grandma’s Spaghetti Bolognese with perfection just like Nona herself. But did you know that this animation was designed on a 2014 prototype machine and that pre-sales for the product launch are already underway this year?!
CHANGE MANAGERS
In what is a very people-centred role, the job of change management can also largely be automated, thanks to Roadmap Pro, an innovative piece of software that serves as a GPS for change. Now your people leaders can simply colour by number and follow the dynamically prescribed steps to achieve the best change management outcomes.
The exciting thing is that when we leave the heavy lifting [thinking] to machines, our minds and time are freed up to do what machines can not [yet]: consider the tertiary consequences, decisionsand actions. So if you really want to amp up and scale up your change, make your mind up and look up Roadmap Pro. It's right up there as the best thing since dial-up.