There is quite a lot of chatter about "robots" and AI. In case you haven't followed this story, some highlights:
- many lower wage/skill jobs are going away due to automation. think about how Netflix (a robot) streaming has replaced DVD delivery, Blockbuster, etc. and the jobs that went away. or that Walmart has totally automated lights-out 24x7 distribution warehouses. Amazon wants to deliver things to you by drone. Uber and the rest of Silicon Valley want you to use self-driving cars. etc.
- many higher wage/skill jobs are going away due to automation. machine learning can diagnose well. robots can perform procedures. robots can do better financial investing. robots can give you good legal boilerplate and "read" documents much faster and more accurately. Having SaaS and everything aaS means a lot of sysadmin type work goes away (why would you have your own computers, data centers, etc., instead of renting services). People are paying less and less for things like quality journalism. Advertising is more automated, not just on Google but across media as Google, Apple, etc., automate television, etc.
- Google's CEO and others say AI and machine learning are the key technologies now.
- Siri/Alexa/other assistants can do more and more tasks for you.
So of course some jobs that will exist are the ones involved in designing and programming the "robots". That will create certain high skill jobs for a short time. But many jobs are forecasted to go away (both lower and higher wage). Supposedly creative jobs (harder to automate) will be more important but how many of those do you need? My question is what other jobs will be good as this story unfolds? If you want to cheat a little, here is a list of BLS fastest growing occupations:
https://www.bls.gov/ooh/fastest-growing.htm, but what are your own ideas here?