Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most disruptive and innovative technologies available today, changing the way industries operate and bringing unprecedented opportunities and challenges to humanity. With the development of AI, many traditional professions and professions will be at risk of being replaced or eliminated, so, as a parent, how should you raise your children so that they do not fall behind in this era of change and competition?
First, you need to understand which areas and roles AI will have the greatest impact. According to a thorough survey of 702 jobs by the University of Oxford, white-collar workers and 50% of artisans could be replaced by machines. Specifically, professionals believe that positions such as programmers, media workers, and financial analysts are at highest risk of being replaced by artificial intelligence. These occupations often involve a lot of data processing, text generation, digital analysis, and so on, which AI like ChatGPT is good at and can do efficiently.
Second, you need to develop your child with skills and qualities that are difficult to replace or imitate with AI. These skills and qualities include:
- Innovative thinking and creativity. Although AI can learn and imitate human behavior and knowledge, it cannot surpass or break existing rules and paradigms, nor can it produce truly original and valuable ideas and works. Therefore, in the era of artificial intelligence, innovative thinking and creativity will become the most important and scarce resources, which can help human beings open up new fields, solve new problems, and create new value.
- Social skills and emotional intelligence. While AI can have basic communication and interaction with humans, it is not yet able to understand and express complex and subtle emotions, attitudes, and values, nor can it build truly deep and lasting relationships. Therefore, in the era of artificial intelligence, social skills and emotional intelligence will become the most important and useful abilities that can help humans build their strengths in trust, cooperation, empathy, leadership, etc.
- Cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural knowledge. Although AI can master and apply a large amount of expertise and information, it cannot bridge the barriers and differences between different fields and cultures, nor can it integrate and innovate knowledge and information between different fields and cultures. Therefore, in the era of artificial intelligence, cross-domain and cross-cultural knowledge will become the most important and interesting learning goal, which can help humans expand their horizons, increase their knowledge, and improve adaptability.
In short, in the era of artificial intelligence, you need to equip your children with the following three characteristics: innovation rather than imitation, social rather than isolation, and pluralism rather than single. Only then will they be able to remain competitive and dynamic in the world of the future.
In addition, AI will have an impact on many fields and positions, but there are also professions or industries that are difficult to replace or imitate by AI, and these professions or industries often require the ability to think creatively, social skills, and cross-domain and cross-cultural knowledge. The following are some professions or industries that may not be replaced by artificial intelligence, just for informational purposes:
- Art majors, such as fine arts, music, drama, dance, etc. These professions require creativity, expression and aesthetics, and it is difficult for artificial intelligence to surpass or break through human artistic rules and paradigms, and it is difficult to produce truly original and valuable works of art. (In reality, the profession is extremely competitive, difficult to achieve the needs of fame and fortune, and requires extremely high talent and luck)
- Humanities and social sciences, such as philosophy, history, literature, language, psychology, sociology, etc. These professions require logical thinking, critical thinking and humanistic care, and it is difficult for AI to understand and express complex and subtle emotions, attitudes and values, and to establish truly deep and lasting relationships. (In reality, there is no advantage in employment in this specialty)
- Educational majors, such as pedagogy, educational technology, teacher education, etc. These majors require communication skills, cooperation skills and leadership skills, and although artificial intelligence can assist teaching, it cannot replace the main position of teachers in preaching, teaching, and solving puzzles, nor can it cultivate students' innovative ability and way of thinking.
- Medical and health majors, such as medicine, nursing, pharmacy, etc. These professions require professional knowledge, practical skills and empathy, and although artificial intelligence can assist in diagnosis, treatment and care, it cannot replace the clinical judgment, operational skills and humanistic care of medical staff.
- Legal majors, such as jurisprudence, judicial evaluation, etc. These professions require legal knowledge, reasoning ability, and impartiality, and although artificial intelligence can assist in legal retrieval, analysis and enforcement, it cannot replace legal interpretation, argumentation and ruling.
- Management majors, such as management, economics, finance, etc. Although artificial intelligence can assist management information, analysis and optimization, it cannot replace managers' strategic planning, resource allocation and risk control.
- Engineering and technology majors, such as mechanical engineering, electronic engineering, computer science, etc. These professions require scientific knowledge, experimental skills and innovation, and while AI can assist in design, manufacturing and testing, it cannot replace engineers' scientific and technological discovery, R&D and innovation.
- Life science majors, such as biology, agriculture, medicine, etc. These professions require life knowledge, experimental skills and innovation, and although artificial intelligence can assist life exploration, analysis and application, it cannot replace life discovery, research and innovation of life scientists.
- Environmental resources majors, such as geography, geology, environmental science, etc. These professions require environmental knowledge, investigative skills and conservation awareness, and while AI can assist environmental monitoring, assessment and governance, it cannot replace environmental awareness, research and conservation of environmental resource experts.
- Cultural communication majors, such as journalism, radio and television, network communication, etc. These professions require communication knowledge, expression skills and influence, and although artificial intelligence can assist in information collection, editing and publishing, it cannot replace the information screening, interpretation and guidance of cultural communicators. (In reality, there is no advantage in employment in this specialty)
The above are some of the professions or industries that may not be replaced by artificial intelligence, and may not be completely accurate or comprehensive, please make a suitable choice based on your own interests and future planning.