These are some jobs, according to Amy Webb, the founder of Webmedia group, that are ripe for disruption by artificial intelligence.

1. Phone booth operators and cashiers: The rise of wearable technology and mobile payment systems e.g the Apple Watch and the Apple pay, may make the jobs virtually out-of-date, because there is no need for a person to be there.

2. Marketers: The advertising tools of the internet can allow brands to fashion their messages to customers with 'precision accuracy'. pointing to new experiments with technologies that study customer behaviour to identify what kind of ads will be most effective, Webb indicated that if those tools work, then it would be translated to smaller Marketing and Ad firms.

3. Customer service: New technologies like predictive analytics could kill most of these jobs. Robots like Cortana and Watson fit perfectly for such jobs.

4. Factory workers: Haptics, a sensor based technology allows people to virtually feel objects that are far away. Now imagine such A.I. incorporated into a manufacturing department? it would be more cheaper and efficient.

5. Journalists: The internet has made buying and reading a local newspaper 'Old Fashioned'. With a new technology of 'Robot Journalists' which uses algorithms to automatically create stories and upload them on websites without human interaction, more journalism position would be wiped out.

6. Lawyers: Mrs Webb believes that non-litigation lawyers could soon be replaced by online form-based services that carry out simple tasks like trademark applications, Wills and even Divorce. Its been made easier by the demand to make records more open and easily accessible, thereby reducing the need for high-priced lawyers.

winetapper:
seriously its very annoying..

Especially mechanical engineering.. Robot now fix everything..

RobinHez:

at least it reduces work hazard

and helped rendered thousands Jobless..

winetapper:
and helped rendered thousands Jobless..

RobinHez:

well...think of this, the richest men in the world are those who sit in offices signing cheques and documents...

winetapper:

My point is Robots are threatening our jobs.. Imagin,why den do we humans den go to scholl when you can program a robort to work perfect?

RobinHez:

hahaha...but it is u ngineers dat built them na,
well in naija, it wont happen

Nigerian never import machine to enable work fast nah Robot dem wan bring

winetapper:
Nigerian never import machine to enable work fast nah Robot dem wan bring

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Source: http://www.auburn.edu/~vestmon/robotics.html

RobinHez:

at least it reduces work hazard

GOFON:
@RobinHex,

There are Robots that serves Tea in Hotels in the US already and when the computer is faulty. It pours hot tea on the guest rather than serve in tea cups. The God that created the Human Brain can never be equaled. human beings can only try. Nice piece though.

seunlayi:
It is already happening i.e. Spambot is helping Nairaland Mods to do some task, etc