Of course, they won't be replaced anytime soon, but will be augmented via technology, just like the rest of us. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Every field

Of course, they won't be replaced anytime soon, but will be augmented via technology, just like the rest of us. Hopefully sooner rather than later. Every field is disrupted by software in the same fashion: massive resistance where practitioners claim the human element is crucial, then of gradual swapping out of manual for automated where it helps, to in the long run largely automated. I see a big parallel here with education: I am related to teachers and of course they will swear up and down that hand-crafted, personalized lesson plans are key, and teacher-student interaction invalidates the need entirely for automation. I'd imagine in the long run 80% of these "only humans can do it" tasks will be shown to be performed better by expert systems and data-driven algorithms. Of course the catch is that nobody wants to be told that a large part of the skills they've developed over a lifetime have been made obsolete or relatively worthless through some code and electrons. Software engineers, and many engineering fields in general are used to the idea that every 5 or 10 years most practical knowledge is obsolete, that computers are relentlessly automating things done manually just a few years previous, and to not fight it but embrace it and try to leverage it. I don't think this is a common mentality for most professions. Even physicians for the most part, unless they work in an academic institution, let their reading fall by the wayside and develop habits and ritual around what they were doing when they finished residency.