A leading global job site has listed the highest-paying and fastest-growing jobs with the lowest risk of being replaced by AI in the foreseeable future.
US job site Resume Genius listed the top 10 AI-proof jobs, from highest to lowest-paid, with medical assistants taking the top spot, followed by nurse practitioners and veterinarians in third place.
Medical and health services managers ranked fourth, followed by physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech therapists, audiologists, epidemiologists, and orthotists and prosthetists.
With a median salary of $160,000 per year, medical assistants perform diagnostic and therapeutic procedures that require high levels of manual dexterity, complex problem-solving and interpersonal skills, making the job ill-suited to AI.
Similarly, professional nurses must also possess complex problem-solving skills, creativity, and strong interpersonal skills, which are not AI strengths.
Both medical functions also involve intricate hand movements and precise coordination, which machines have not yet demonstrated.
Veterinarians, who take home an average of $136,000 a year, require extensive knowledge of animal biology, a high degree of manual dexterity for surgeries, and interpersonal skills to communicate with animal owners — all skills that AI cannot yet adequately replicate.
Medical and health care managers need judgment, management and interpersonal skills — things that are not well suited to AI, which needs to constantly adapt to changing requirements that are also difficult to automate.
Professional nurses are one of 10 jobs that, according to US employment website Resume Genius, are unlikely to be filled by artificial intelligence.
AI also finds it difficult to mimic the dexterity and interpersonal skills that physical therapists need.
Occupational therapists also have a high degree of personal interaction and need adaptability to the needs of each patient, things that make AI unsuitable.
Similarly, the level of personalized care, which requires high adaptability and emotional intelligence, limits the application of AI in speech therapy.
While AI can help diagnose hearing problems, the emotional and psychological support audiologists provide is still better suited to humans.
Veterinarians are listed as one of the jobs unlikely to be replaced by AI in the foreseeable future.
Epidemiologists use complex data analysis and interpretation to determine health patterns and outcomes, which AI can help with, but also require judgment and ethical understanding that machines lack.
Orthotists and prosthetists need to have a level of manual dexterity and clinical judgment beyond the current capabilities of AI.
All 10 occupations are expected to grow by at least 10 percent over the next decade, and in the United States all of them generate a salary well above the average of US$71,000 (A$106,000).
This comes after administrative/office support staff, retail workers and people employed in the food service industry were identified as those set to be replaced as AI increases its grip on the Australian workforce.
Research by workforce technology company Service Now has found that 1.3 million jobs will be automated in Australia over the next four years, leading to a significant reshuffle of the workforce.
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