Mechanical Engineers

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Will "Mechanical Engineers" be replaced by AI & Robots?

There is very little chance of this occupation being replaced by robots/AI. This is further validated by our poll, which suggests a 26% chance of automation within the next 2 decades.

Automation Risk Level

Totally Safe

or 1.1% probability of automation

Projected Growth

5%

by 2024

Median Annual Wage

$84,190

or $40.47 hourly

People Employed

285,790

as of 2016

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How this compares with other jobs: 53 out of 706

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Job description

Perform engineering duties in planning and designing tools, engines, machines, and other mechanically functioning equipment. Oversee installation, operation, maintenance, and repair of equipment such as centralized heat, gas, water, and steam systems.

SOC Code: 17-2141

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Emperor Norton I says

With the ability to iterate at speeds no human, or group of humans, could match, AI will be able to "try" millions of permutations of existing components, and then "design" or "modify" new or existing parts to bridge features which it could not solve for, using the same process.

At some point, the old "infinite number of monkeys at typewriters to produce Shakespeare," will become an infinite number of engineers to keep up with a single AI. Quantum computing will only widen the gap.

Solutions will be passed to AI-controlled manufacturing facilities directly for production, as fast at they are derived.

There will be a very small slice of human engineers at the absolute pinnacle, probably only to perturb the iteration process to cause new ways to combine things to solve a problem.

All hail the robot overlords. See you soon

Jul 11, 2019 at 09:31 PM

Why (Highly likely) says

Look at ai now teaching ai its extremely likely software jobs are the first to go

Jun 26, 2019 at 11:59 AM

Gokul says

Mechanical Engineering is evergreen

Apr 08, 2019 at 04:59 AM