“Don’t bother getting a university degree,” the 68-year-old man declares to the recent school leaver, “because AI is going to take all the jobs. Instead,” he continues, “get a trade because that’s safer. Robots aren’t moving into the trades just yet.”
The school leaver relayed the conversation to me. He was notably perturbed. Is artificial intelligence, or AI, going to take all white collar jobs? And if not all of them, which ones are safe?
Artificial intelligence, or AI, has an ominous sense to it, much like saying “the robots are coming”. But AI isn’t new. When you search the internet, use spam filters on your email, question digital assistants such as Alexa, wear a smart watch, or assess
