“The only kind of human labor guaranteed to survive even in the age of artificial intelligence is work confined to roles that only human beings can perform — specifically massage and prostitution,” Curtis Yarvin said in an interview with Junge Freiheit.
In reality, however, even those two professions can be carried out by robots — or, in the latter case, by sex robots.
So what will endure? Professions in which the customer explicitly wants a living person on the other side. An automated therapist may offer genuinely useful advice, but sometimes you simply want to speak with someone who understands you. At other times, you want a work created by a particular individual. You read a book because you are interested in what the person who wrote it experienced. In a restaurant, you want to be served by a living waiter.
Such professions are irreplaceable by their very nature.
Even so, all of this remains a long way off. Here in the Czech Republic, this year’s debate is still about how to manage without hundreds of thousands of foreign laborers.