The AI Revolution

Which jobs will be immune from the AI revolution?

Andy Wadsworth, director at IT recruitment firm The Bridge, part of Morson Group, says: 'Services like ChatGPT are the public's first window into the Pandora's box that the industrial revolution 3.0 could be: there will be winners and losers and, no doubt, some jobs will be replaced by AI, but, it will be those companies and individuals who learn to use generative AI and adapt to this brave new world that will be the winners.

The most resilient roles will be those that require a face to face interaction and physical skills that AI cannot replace. So trades, such as plasterers, electricians, mechanics, etc., and services – everything from hairdressers to chiropodists - will continue to rely on human understanding of the task and human ability to deliver it.

Hospitality, for example, will still need people as chefs, waiters, chambermaids etc., and in healthcare, we will still need doctors, nurses, dentists and the huge array of specialist practitioners that look after us.

In the knowledge economy, ChatGPT and the technology that follow present the biggest threat… but also the greatest opportunity.

Currently, this AI capability is the equivalent of a toddler that we are teaching how to behave and what to do.

And, just like a toddler, it is learning exponentially – with every interaction and everything we feed into it, ChatGPT is becoming more capable and building on experience.

The global community is driving how quickly ChatGPT learns and what it learns, so the jobs that are replaced or evolve the fastest will very much depend on how people use the technology.

Whether this tech becomes a threat or an opportunity is all down to who is using it and how – as a force, it has the limitless potential of a Jedi, as much as it does the possibility of turning to the Dark Side.