Historians

AUTOMATION RISK

CALCULATED

35%

risk level

POLLING

23%

Based on 320 votes

LABOR DEMAND

GROWTH

4.5%

by year 2032

WAGES

$72,890

or $35.04 per hour

Volume

3,040

as of 2023

SUMMARY

JOB SCORE

5.8/10

35% (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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Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Historians' was $72,890, or $35 per hour

'Historians' were paid 51.7% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

Wages over time

Comments

. (Low) 18 days ago

A lot of research into different parts of history involved using interpretations and sources of either other historians or people from the time. How these pieces of history are interpreted by historians is entirely subjective to who is studying them. Robots and humans have different skills and robots are likely to pick up less small details that humans with a lot of experience in researching and studying sources and artifacts might find.

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Oppressed Humanities Grad Student 11 months ago

I'm a terminal PhD student and I hate this job. I hope we get replaced by the machines in near future, including my advisor. A robot would treat his PhD students better.

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Jonathan Fletcher 3 years ago

History is best taught through human because if it was a bot there would be a lot of errors lets say you miss type a letter or something the bot would fail while a human can correct. History is something that should be taught by thing its about Humans.

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Faisal Ali Al Zahrani 3 years ago

Alright now, my first question will be Historians and the philosophy of Historians, Historian go out travel the world robot will pause "error" historians go out like archaeologists dig find travel or maybe work in museums. Yet I can't see a human like machine do this task, and how will it even be able to do this task not just the information but the work the Job like going out to the field digging mapping, "archaeological discoveries" this is how historians are paid for doing field work not just inquiring content knowledge. So historians especially archaeologists will remain safe for work. If Robotics and A.I can inquire the content knowledge that's "absolutely fine" BUT! are they able to go out in the field and execute field work? NO they can't.
So it's not only the content knowledge of a subject matter but the ability to understand and attempt field work, including standing up research based work, discovering, and even other stuff that all includes these types abilities.

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Kate the Tet (Low) 3 years ago

History will be too complicated for robots, as for me. Because this science include psychology, sociology, politics that can't be understanding for machines. Besides, history is not math.

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Nilay Kanakia (No chance) 3 years ago

This job is highly subjective

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William (No chance) 4 years ago

Though history, like any academic subject, can hypothetically be taught by software, unlike math it requires a human element. You can teach students the information, but you can't make them care or help them draw connections. You can't guide them down a pathway of critical thinking, at least not consistently, with learning software. Not only that, but also it is highly unlikely, unless true artificial intelligence is possible, that robots can synthesize new information and form different opinions on the subject matter. They can't account for bias without a level of input unless they're truly independently intelligent and capable of truly learning.

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rachel 3 years ago

very very true. Robots won't be able to understand the human chaos, mistakes, and beauty of history

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Aidan (No chance) 4 years ago

Historical texts and sources, as well as events, require human minds to interpret - an AI would be unable to analyze the nuances of human history

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Hunchopreneur 3 years ago

I don't think so really. Check out OpenAi's GPT 3. I think if the rural network is fed with more neuro links and data it will do well than humans. I watched a video where it had a conversation wherein it, the AI assumed itself to be Albert Einstein and the discussion was pretty astonishing. AI is minimized by a lot of people, it's powers are more than what we can ever imagine

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Sarah (Highly likely) 5 years ago

Soon, the way to learn history would have to be from a computer.

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