For all the jaw-dropping stuff that artificial intelligence can supposedly do . . . it can also do really dumb stuff, like translate a grocery list into Shakespearean English. So it’s hard to know what jobs are safe.
A new study evaluated 30 different careers to see which professions are successfully holding the line against A.I. automation.
Here are the top 10 most stable, A.I.-proof jobs:
1. Physical therapists
2. Surgeons
3. Dentists
4. Construction managers
5. Police and detectives
6. Psychologists
7. Information Security Analysts
8. Dental Hygienists
9. Social Workers
10. Lawyers
The key in the data is a metric measuring “face-to-face human contact.” The more your job requires you to “look at a living, breathing human in the eye, the harder you are for a computer program to replace.”