There are endless posts predicting the demise of jobs that can be taken over by software agents: that information is not news go anyone I imagine.
Agents subsume process:
In more distinct form, it could be said that any job that is process-driven -- to wit: defined tasks and determinative sequencing and logic -- and is also data enabled and data dependent, and can be graded with objective success criteria is subject to agent takeover. Indeed, Amazon recently reported having in excess of one million robots, now more than employees.
Computer sciences education is being re-architected, and the entry job is definitely going to be different. Our domain is racing to keep up with all the agent intrusion in the PM office: One day, the PM literature and how-to of today will be quaint and amusing to look back upon.
So, if jobs enabled by process are endangered, the flip side of that coin are safe?
The flip side is where subjective, judgmental, creative, and risky efforts and contributions dwell.
But what of AGI, some would ask. Won't AGI invade the subjective and judgmental? Won't AGI make risk assessments and commit resources without human intervention? Perhaps some form of AGI will, if it really materializes and become economically ubiquitous.
Where agents don't tread:
My guess -- vision? -- is that we humans will stay a step in front of the destruction wrought by AI and find a future that is value-adding because only the human can outthink and over-create a neural-net. But, unfortunately, the destruction of the present value will be wrenching.
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