Psychiatrists

Minimal Risk
12%
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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
0.0%
(Minimal Risk)
POLLING
24%
(Low Risk)
Average: 12%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
7.6%
by year 2033
WAGES
$226,880
or $109.07 per hour
Volume
24,830
as of 2023
SUMMARY
JOB SCORE
8.6/10

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Calculated automation risk

0.0% (Minimal Risk)

Minimal Risk (0-20%): Occupations in this category have a low probability of being automated, as they typically demand complex problem-solving, creativity, strong interpersonal skills, and a high degree of manual dexterity. These jobs often involve intricate hand movements and precise coordination, making it difficult for machines to replicate the required tasks.

More information on what this score is, and how it is calculated is available here.

Some very important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Assisting and Caring for Others

  • Social Perceptiveness

Some quite important qualities of the job are difficult to automate:

  • Persuasion

  • Negotiation

  • Originality

User poll

24% chance of full automation within the next two decades

Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 0.0% chance of automation.

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What is the likelihood that Psychiatrists will be replaced by robots or artificial intelligence within the next 20 years?






Sentiment

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Sentiment over time (yearly)

Growth

Very fast growth relative to other professions

The number of 'Psychiatrists' job openings is expected to rise 7.6% by 2033

Total employment, and estimated job openings

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics for the period between 2021 and 2031
Updated projections are due 09-2024.

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Psychiatrists' was $226,880, or $109 per hour

'Psychiatrists' were paid 372.1% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

* Data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics

Volume

Lower range of job opportunities compared to other professions

As of 2023 there were 24,830 people employed as 'Psychiatrists' within the United States.

This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country

Put another way, around 1 in 6 thousand people are employed as 'Psychiatrists'.

Job description

Diagnose, treat, and help prevent mental disorders.

SOC Code: 29-1223.00

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Run Jack (Possible) 2 months ago
Well, AI therapists already exist - that is considered to be truth, as that they are already being used. But therapist is made to make you able to go back to the society, not leave it, and talkign with ai, which is raised to answer your questions to make you pleasured, and not necessarily speak truth, it will likely make you more and more anti-social, but yes - it might replace bad psychologists and therapists, who's best advice is to be happy that you made your bed this morning
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Alex (No chance) 2 months ago
Humans need to relate and have compassion from a real human and there is no chance no fake ai can complete that feeling.
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Scott Winter (No chance) 3 months ago
Interpersonal skills, especially emotional intelligence are the key traits of both psychiatrist & the various counseling professionals. These are the hardest for AI to duplicate.
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Idk (No chance) 4 months ago
How could they it needs stuff that is near impossible to replicate
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Xavi (Highly likely) 7 months ago
Chatbots for therapy already exist
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Sofia 2 days ago
yes, but it is not very effective, she responds to give you more pleasure than to tell the truth, and also a psychiatrist needs important skills for the profession such as empathy, something that is difficult to acquire from a robot, I have already tested these chats. talk, and it's not very good compared to real psychiatrists, it really could be that in the coming decades he will evolve even more and he may even have emotions and have these skills, like empathy as I said, but the risk for now is that this will dominate the field of psychology is low, very low
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Hmm 4 months ago
Whether it will exist is much different than whether or not it is actually effective.
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Matthew (Highly likely) 8 months ago
Current GPT-4 already
"ranked higher than the majority of physicians in psychiatry, with a median percentile of 74.7% " on the 2022 Israeli board residency examinations than practicing physicians.

https://ai.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/AIdbp2300192

Artificial Intelligence in 20 years will categorically outperform psychiatrists in both diagnosis and prescription. Social frameworks for allowing AI to hold a diagnostic or prescribing role should have been implemented by then.




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Domi 2 months ago
Many people with schizofrenia and bipolar disorder will dissimulate and its not easy for machines to detect dissimulation.
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Zachary 7 months ago
Incorrect, you put far too much faith into machines, you focus too heavily on diagnosis, and seem to forget that a certain level of empathy is required to approach psychiatric issues on a holistic scale.
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aaa (Highly likely) 10 months ago
The amount of data and information that an AI can process cant be matched by us.
AI will remember each and every minute detail about the person once he tells it and by his past history data. AI will be able to suggest accurate strategies based on this. It might not happen suddenly but slowly slowly they will become more prominent.
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Nairy (No chance) 1 year ago
Cause it needs a heart to heart connection and ethical skills like empathy and understanding which cannot be acquired by robots
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Romulo Lima (Moderate) 1 year ago
because it will facilitate many tasks and allow you to have free time for other activities.
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Aneesh gupta (Moderate) 1 year ago
AI can provide non stop guidance and universal accessibility to a patient.
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Sebastián (No chance) 1 year ago
A profession which will be assisted by AI, although the main task will also be one whom will be preferred to be assisted by humans.
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Rude (Low) 2 years ago
As there is always a small chance of something happening but still psychiatrist is a job which requires humans understanding other humans so most likely it would never happen
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No. (No chance) 2 years ago
There's no way psychiatrists would be replaced/automated, their most important feat is to understand the emotions of humans, and that won't be able to be replaced by robots in the next two decades.
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Javed (Uncertain) 2 years ago
It is extremely unlikely that AIs will handle psychological issues with pinpoint accuracy. In order to treat a human, you have to be a human. Yes, codes and programs will eventually learn how to handle particular patients, but not all problems are the same.
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