[czbond]

I mean... that's life. What schools should teach is not just "here is a career that matches you're skills" - but more so, "if you choose this career, these are the most probable outcomes and life paths you'll end up in"

If AI takes engineering, medical, and law work away from those professionals - they too could have spent many hours to learn, to then earn little.

Every human has worth, but we all value the type of work differently.

[giraffe_lady]

"that's life" like this is an inevitable fact of the universe we must live with? No, this is the world we have made. To some extent you have to come to terms with it and find a place to live within it, yes. But those terms can be "this sucks, this is wrong, it should change" which it seems that's where the other commenter is headed.

[czbond]

I don't disagree with your sentiment and the need for that effort, but the probability path is that since the medieval times or longer this has been attempted with no long term success. Make bets on the most probable until real change has occurred.

[pcthrowaway]

Medical and Legal are 2 of the last professions that are likely to get automated.

Lawyers are entirely composed of people who can legislate away the threat of AI practicing law (taking their jobs)

And robots aren't known for their bedside manner yet. Also, there's a lot of liability in practicing medicine, which companies would probably be unwise to take on

[czbond]

Counter argument:

Law AI will be used for case defense prep, argument creation, research, analysis (essentially what law graduates and non-partner style attorneys do) as cost savings / ROI enhancement. Attorneys will have to specialize in mostly customer facing / court facing roles. This will cut the staff needed to perform those duties.

Real Law AI change will have to be consumer driven.

Medical AI.... with so much malpractice & liability, AI will reduce those risks for practicioners, increase ROI to practiciioners (less payments to insurance), and also require back office practicioners to become more customer facing. Maybe instead of 10 radiologists, you can use 1.

Medical AI will be used on low tier ailments (eg: urgent care headaches, etc) to help nurses see more cases, etc - initially replacing the low end work. Doctors can then have a more normal schedule, but feed a collective AI model to where 1 doctor can then oversee 50...200 cases. Those models will first be rolled out to developing countries until a generation of doctors in the US are dwindled except in emergency care situations.

[lotsofpulp]

That is how it is already going with physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as I understand. Instead of 1 doctor seeing 20 patients in a day, 1 doctor “oversees” a bunch of PA/NP each seeing 20 patients in a day.

[pcthrowaway]

We do still have massive doctor shortages though (at least here in Canada) so I wouldn't worry about doctors not having jobs any time soon

It's gotten pretty ugly with provinces trying to poach doctors from other provinces, competing with each other to offer incentives to entice doctors from other provinces