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No I don't think they will, at least not any job that requires significant thought to be put into it. There are alot of services which human beings provide which a robot could never take.

Take for example a lawyer, no robot can completely analyse a situation and investigate a person's court case as well as defend them in court, they just can't.

Doctors are required to diagnose as well as give treatment to patients. A significant part of treating a patient is how you relate with the patient as well as how well you can get the patient to communicate what they're feeling at the time. Robots can't do that and although artificial intelligence is on the rise, I don't see this happening for at least another couple of years.

As far as jobs unskilled labour is concerned, then maybe robots could take people's jobs there because the world is gradually moving towards a stage where everything is automated. As long as skilled jobs like engineers, medical doctors, therapists and lawyers still exist then I can't see a situation where robots will be able to take these jobs.

Not all our jobs but certain jobs that a robot could do 24 hours and you couldn't. Packing, assembling,construction,driving are just a few I can think of that will be at high risk of being replaced.

Companies need to cheapen services and products to be more efficient and competitive. This is one way they can bring down prices. A work force is very expensive and is rather limited in certain aspects.

A human expects holidays and sick leave and can be unreliable. This is time lost to the company that they can never get back. A robot doesn't need down time unless it is an upgrade but can work 4 x as much as a human if take all the hours in the week. That is 4 x more production and would make a huge difference. 

Where robot's suffer from is they can't think for themselves so you have to have someone overseeing and a programmer. Who knows how far a robot will progress in the future.



In recent years, many analysts predict that robots or automation systems supported by artificial intelligence will take over human work. But the prediction was denied by a venture capitalist Marc Andreessen.

According to him, this kind of fear actually happened long ago. This kind of panic occurs every 25 to 50 years. But nothing really happened.

Andreessen, who helped develop Netscape, said the obsession with robots would replace humans had happened 100 years ago. At that time, humans feared the presence of a car called to replace human workers.

But apparently the car industry has now become one of the fields with the most human workers. Not only that, along with the growing growth of cars, it has also contributed to the development of new jobs in the field of road construction.

The same thing also applies to the development of autonomous cars. Besides being said to offer a safer driving experience, there is a possibility that the technology can actually increase productivity but do not know what kind of form.

He also did not dismiss now that there has been a large investment from a number of technology companies in the field of artificial intelligence. Nevertheless, not all survive, only companies that offer transformation can compete.

The issue of robots that can replace human roles in work has long been predicted. In the annual World Economic Forum meeting, a number of company officials even discussed this issue.

A number of studies also predict robots and artificial intelligence will soon take over human work. The Oxford University study in 2013 estimated that half of the jobs in the United States were threatened by the presence of machines.

While Forrester Research counts at least in 2019, a quarter of the work will be replaced by software robots, physical robots and autonomous systems. By 2025, most of the work will be replaced by models that have never existed before.


 This is a question that keeps a lot of people up at night... Will the robots eventually end up taking all of our jobs... The answer is probably Yes, mostly. 

This is based on personal opinion, but I'm pretty sure that by 2050 over 90% of factory jobs will be gone, robots will have become specialized enough to do almost every task in factories that humans do today.

A similar thing has been going on lately on the food sector, in a lot of fast food restaurants in the first world where wages are raising, humans are no longer in the front desk taking your orders, your order is taking through a screen and the order gets send to the kitchen so that the humans cook... you might be thinking, well that means humans will get to keep their place at the kitchen right? well... not really... Let me present to you the Autonomous Burger Robot

This is a robot/automatic assembly line that assembles and prepares burgers, this removes the necessity for restaurants to even have a big kitchen space, you just need the storage space for the ingredients but wait! There's a job for humans here! Humans have to load the ingredients to the machine so that it can prepare them but how much time do you give it until it becomes an automatized process too? The repair for the machine on the other hand, I don't expect that job to go to a robot for a good while!

On the health area there are already a lot of robots doing a proccedures but I don't expect the human aspect of healthcare to go away for a while just because people probably would prefer to be treated by humans... for now... Just like in education, people won't go away that easily just because of the human touch.

but TL;DR: Yes, a lot of jobs will be gone, but a few really especialized ones will remain, including in tech, education and healthcare... probably...