Why do people say we need more immigrants? Robots are the future.

[Humanist_Activist]

20. I don't see where "highly skilled" workers would be immune, AI agents are already...

displacing quite a few white collar jobs, look at a picture of Wall Street on a trading day today versus 20 or 30 years ago. You have computers trading stocks, even making decisions and predictions about stock behavior with little to no human input.

File clerks are becoming a thing of the past, for example in law firms, including paralegals and such, can be easily replaced by agents designed specifically to sift through legal documents and prepare summaries and legal documents on their own. They would do it much more quickly and more accurately than any human.

This also applies to people employed to prepare press releases, articles, etc. They are replaceable by computers, and chances are, you have already read articles that were not prepared by humans at all, and more importantly, you didn't notice.

Does your job involve creating schedules for others and/or preparing spreadsheets, collating data, presentations, etc.? Also replaceable.

Hell, Watson is busy supplementing the work of doctors in diagnosis and treatment of cancer, in the future, AI may replace many of the jobs a physician has, with more accuracy and less mistakes.

Even in creative fields, computers may end up replacing humans, for example, in the case of product design, there are already algorithms that use artificial selection criteria and concepts related to evolution to design products more efficiently than humans can.

Even in computer coding, many things are automated, and low level computer programmers aren't necessary and can be replaced by scripts and bots easily enough, and are, by the way. Its only a matter of time before computer programs can program other, better computer programs.

Not to mention, and this is important, many of these programs will able to learn and grow from past data and "experiences", and so are able to adapt to changing conditions.