Get Ready for the No-Jobs Future

Many experts agree that the no-jobs future is almost here. Therefore, most of us will need to adapt to a world without jobs.

For instance, the Brookings Institution forecasts; “By 2030, some 25 percent of U.S. employment will have experienced high exposure to automation, while another 36 percent of U.S. employment will experience medium exposure, and another 39 percent will experience low exposure.”

Thus, one in four Americans runs a high risk of losing his or her job to a machine in the next decade. Ominously, Brookings’ brains think robots threaten many menial jobs long believed resistant to technological unemployment.

For instance, Brookings estimates 76.9% of waiters and waitresses, 84.7% of dishwashers, and 91.4% of food preparation jobs are vulnerable to automation. Under those circumstances, even menial work could be hard to find.

AI is Coming for Your Job

Nor is education likely to be the job protector it is today. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already filling jobs traditionally filled by college graduates.

The Associated Press already publishes some stories written by AI, Student Voices notes. Meanwhile, IBM’s Watson is already diagnosing cancer, Bloomberg reports.