Healthcare

It is true that technology has been infiltrating different industries for centuries; after all, the term “technological unemployment,” referring to job loss due to task automation, was coined by economist John Keynes almost a hundred years ago now. What may be changing since Keynes first described this phenomenon is the proportion and types of jobs impacted. Careers that require “human” traits such as creativity, imagination, communication, empathy, or compassion have historically been secure. Jobs involving healthcare, the arts, invention, and teaching could never have been managed by something non-human. Now, artificial intelligence (AI) and neural networks have changed the scope of careers threatened, making Keynes’s term more relevant than ever.