Mechanical Engineers

30% (Low Risk)

Low Risk (21-40%): Jobs in this level have a limited risk of automation, as they demand a mix of technical and human-centric skills.

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Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Mechanical Engineers' was $99,510, or $47 per hour

'Mechanical Engineers' were paid 107.1% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Aral Yılmaz (Low) 30 days ago

Due to it dealing with tangible objects and physical machinery instead of only written work.

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Zak Cullen (Low) 1 month ago

depends a lot on real world decision making, value judgements/deciding what you believe is important to prioritise and management

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Matthew L (Low) 2 months ago

As AI-aided machines replace human workers (e.g. Spot), they will need mechanical engineers to oversee them.

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RP (Low) 3 months ago

I'm a mech eng, and IAs can't actually do a lot of stuff we do.

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nick g (Highly likely) 4 months ago

the protein mapping breakthrough demonstated complex pattern intuition and accuracy. to cut costs due to drop in B.S. degrees devaluating and increased liabilities, companies will listen to Consultants advocating training models on their products and goals, this will wipe out any entery level position. the semiconductor industry is rapidly cutting engineering jobs, anyone who says otherwise is blissfully ignorant...

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Anirudh (Low) 4 months ago

You need someone to make robots for robots to replace them.

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Valentina C (Low) 5 months ago

They prob wont take the job cs you need to see the machines, scan them to find the mistakes, and be reallly specialized on that area to find them, but its still very possible to do it. Im scared.

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John (In college and worked in some factorys) (Low) 8 months ago

I think some mechanical engineers will get replaced by the gain in efficiency that other engineers get form AI, a total AI/Robot taking of the job is not in the foreseeable future.

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Arthur Schroeder (No chance) 10 months ago

It’s a very hard job and very complicated and I don’t think robots are automating that any time soon…

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Gavin (No chance) 1 year ago

Artificial intelligence does not have the creativity needed or the ability to fully understand some of the problems people go through throughout the world.

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Raúl (No chance) 1 year ago

I think it has no chance because cars can have rust or other problems a robot can't understand and deal whit them.

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Congo (No chance) 1 year ago

Simply in this area of engineering there is no chance of robot or AI taking it. Maybe in the long run yes, but there is still a pretty long way of developing AI to substitute a mechanical engineer, for now and 1 or 2 decades is impossible. Maybe in the third decade or fourth but with a lot of funding and a lot of training. Because you need to think that to be able to make an AI/robot that can surpass or substitute a human it will need to be only focused on this area, not pretty cost-effective, for the AI industries.

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Cooper Johnston (No chance) 1 year ago

there is no robot that can replicate the human thought process and thinking

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Burke (No chance) 1 year ago

Mechanical Engineering, like all disciplines of engineering, requires the ability to make difficult ethical decisions regarding systems that affect all of society. This is something that not even the most advanced generalized AI of the future is capable of doing.

Engineering is also a profession, which means that its members set the standards for who can be called an engineer and take responsibility for their decisions. AI cannot make decisions in light of the weight of their actions. It is a tool, not a person, which ultimately undermines any semblance of accountability that is necessary for engineering to be a respectable and societally beneficial profession.

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Michal (No chance) 1 year ago

I believe mechanical engineering to be far too interdisciplinary (design, manufacturing, economics) to be fully automated a whole. I see AI taking over or speeding up certain specific tasks that mechanical engineers are burdened with, never their entire role.

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Ninjamokama_3 (Low) 1 year ago

There are way too many human aspects about engineering. It's next to impossible for AI to automate, let alone replace, every aspect of an engineer's job

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John F. Sutton (Low) 1 year ago

This is a sometimes tough job and would be hard to automate for good reason such as:

1. Fixing stuff, this is complicated as it could literally be anything that could be broken about something.
2. Complexity, the more complex a job is, the more unlikely this job will be taken, this job is hard and absurdly complex sometimes.
3. Problems, this job can cause lots of issues with AI and it is the communication and bugs/viruses that could occur, the cost of these robots would be nuts and it would be hard to afford these machines.
4. Design, AI is a complex work of coding, there is one problem, how would they make the design of there robots that won't screw up how they work, they have to be just right to mimic a person and that would be hard to do.

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C (Low) 1 year ago

Since Mechanical Engineering has to deal with problems beyond reasonable thinking and has to create something entirely new and possibly unrelated to any previous topic, AI could help but never replace a mechanical engineer

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dhaarini (Uncertain) 1 year ago

no trained machine has ever come too close to designing any whole equipment. but certainly, I feel there are specific jobs that could be automated like pressure, stress, strain detection and analysis

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d (No chance) 1 year ago

The prompt is "next 20 years". No chance. There are so many industrial and mechanical problems that have yet to be solved, and AI right now simply trains on what's already been done and can then piece it together using predictions. Decent for language, OK but not great for art, horrible for design if you are actually trying to tackle a novel challenge. And if it's not novel... then what's the point? Just google it.

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