Psychiatrists

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AUTOMATION RISK
CALCULATED
0.0%
(Minimal Risk)
POLLING
27%
(Low Risk, Based on 595 votes)
Average: 13%
LABOR DEMAND
GROWTH
7.6%
by year 2033
WAGES
The median wage for this occupation is currently unknown
Volume
24,830
as of 2023
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JOB SCORE
8.4/10
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- Chance of being automated
- Job growth
- Wages
- Volume of available positions

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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.

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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

  • Originality

  • Negotiation

User poll

27% 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.

What do you think the risk of automation is?

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 2023 and 2033
Updated projections are due 09-2025.

Wages

Very high paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Psychiatrists' was Unknown, or Unknown per hour

* 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

Comments (25)

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Owen Gower (No chance)
19 Dec 2025 12:36
I personally believe you need human-to-human contact for therapy.
Hashim (No chance)
08 Nov 2025 04:37
It is very unlikely for psychiatry to be replaced because there is no emotional understanding and human connection in AI. AI can replace data analysis and probably chatbots but patients want empathy and trust. AI will make physicians more productive and allow them to shift their focus to providing human centered care. The best treatment will always need human connection.
ash
14 May 2025 17:54
High chance
most psychiatrists are already cold and are used to boxing and categorizing ppl which is literally what ai can do.
Jim
05 Jul 2025 02:22
This is true.

Read The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness book. People committed themselves under a fake illness and tried to prove they were cured to their doctors and get released. A real eye-opener and the whole field and science is mostly BS.
Wulf
12 Oct 2025 20:19
Not a great point, you could do the same thing with PCP and get pain meds prescribed.....then come out and go "see! I didn't actually have pain, Hah!" Some symptoms are just subjective.
LudditeCSci
05 Feb 2026 04:00
It's also not a great argument because that study was fraudulent, like most of the biggest psychology experiments of all time.

I still think psychiatrists will be replaced but not for the reasons the other user gave.
Lizzie (No chance)
19 Apr 2025 20:11
No matter how much Ai evolves, it can never be trained to accommodate everyone and their struggles
Run Jack (Possible)
20 Oct 2024 11:22
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
Alex (No chance)
01 Oct 2024 19:00
Humans need to relate and have compassion from a real human and there is no chance no fake ai can complete that feeling.
Scott Winter (No chance)
04 Sep 2024 22:44
Interpersonal skills, especially emotional intelligence are the key traits of both psychiatrist & the various counseling professionals. These are the hardest for AI to duplicate.
Idk (No chance)
20 Aug 2024 01:52
How could they it needs stuff that is near impossible to replicate
Xavi (Highly likely)
16 May 2024 12:53
Chatbots for therapy already exist
Hmm
19 Aug 2024 10:05
Whether it will exist is much different than whether or not it is actually effective.
Sofia
03 Dec 2024 00:57
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
Matthew (Highly likely)
13 Apr 2024 21:39
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.




Zachary
27 Apr 2024 13:15
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.
Domi
22 Sep 2024 14:05
Many people with schizofrenia and bipolar disorder will dissimulate and its not easy for machines to detect dissimulation.
aaa (Highly likely)
12 Feb 2024 13:08
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.
Nairy (No chance)
15 Aug 2023 03:48
Cause it needs a heart to heart connection and ethical skills like empathy and understanding which cannot be acquired by robots
Romulo Lima (Moderate)
15 Jun 2023 14:03
because it will facilitate many tasks and allow you to have free time for other activities.
Aneesh gupta (Moderate)
07 Jun 2023 13:23
AI can provide non stop guidance and universal accessibility to a patient.
Sebastián (No chance)
30 Jan 2023 18:57
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.
Rude (Low)
29 Jul 2022 14:52
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
No. (No chance)
28 Jul 2022 18:42
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.
Javed (Uncertain)
10 Mar 2022 22:20
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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