Impact Of AI Technology, A Series Of Professions Will Be Replaced By Robots Or Machines

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Assistant Deputy for the Improvement of Manpower Productivity (PPTK) of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs (Kemenko Perekonomian) Chairul Saleh said that there would be several types of work that would be replaced with machines in line with the development of artificial intelligence (AI).

According to Chairul, administrative and repeated work will be more vulnerable to being replaced due to the rapid development of technology.

"What is clear is that first, workers are routine and repeated like that. Then it is administrative in nature. That will definitely be replaced, because everything can be read by the algorithm," he said in a media briefing on the development of digital economic policies, Wednesday, June 12.

Chairul gave another example, such as the driving profession or driver, which may be replaceable by the innovation of autopilot in electric vehicles (EVs) such as the Tesla company which has embedded automation navigation technology in its EV unit.

Based on data from the World Economic Forum, several areas of work that are threatened with being lost include entry, administrative, executive secretary, accounting, clerk, assembly workers, business services, administration manager, client information and customer service, general and operation manager, mechanical and machinery, and headliner.

To anticipate this, said Chairul, it is necessary to improve the quality of human resources (HR) that are able to operate technology.

"Tesla, for example, has automatic navigation. It's probably driver work, for that tomorrow it can be lost, while humans are still there. Workers are still there so we can prepare them for shifting, from the usual time he works conventionally and he can apply the technology himself to be able to beapply at work," he said.

He said that jobs engaged in AI, programming, and computing will continue to develop in the future.

Some of these professions include data analysts, AI specialists, big data specialists, digital marketing, strategy specialists, process automation specialists, business development professionals, digital transformation specialists, information security analysis, software and application developers, and IoT specialists.

"This cannot be avoided because the government itself also gets benefits from the digital economy. Here it was conveyed at the beginning that our digital economy's contribution was quite large, yes, for our economic growth," concluded Chairul.