Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists

14% (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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Wages

High paid relative to other professions

In 2023, the median annual wage for 'Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists' was $70,600, or $33 per hour

'Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists' were paid 46.9% higher than the national median wage, which stood at $48,060

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Thomas sangero (No chance) 6 months ago

Because you need the human touch and skills (like being able to sneak and precice movement)

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Clover (Low) 8 months ago

An animal would barely act right around lets say a zookeeper, a robot would be crushed on the first day.

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Paleoman77(I love Pooh) (Low) 10 months ago

They have to have care for the animals, and the ability to improvise

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Alex G. 10 months ago

This field doesn't require just research, it covers many advanced biological studies that simply can't be replicated by Artificial Intelligence. Field studies could require traveling and sorts, and there's no way computers can do that.

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:] 10 months ago

I don't think AI could ever care for animals because of their different needs and changing patterns.

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Lucy (No chance) 10 months ago

A robot cannot care for an animal in the wild, animals are too unpredictable

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Étienne Pinsonneault (Low) 11 months ago

While humans keep finding better and alternative methods to study animals, AI, which is trained on already existing things only, cannot create new methods, and thus cannot discover new species. However, there is still a chance that it may happen for some parts of the job that are repetitive and the same thing over and over again. And for the physical part of going out into the wild, robots are NOT advanced enough to do all of that movement and to know where to go next.

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Anonymous (Uncertain) 1 year ago

It's essentially researching, and AI has been learning more and more.

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Viktor (Low) 1 year ago

I voted low because you can not replace taking care of animals or studying animals with AI. Humans can somewhat understand animals and how they act, but I don't think AI think be able to feel empathy or care for animals like humans do.

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ez (No chance) 1 year ago

because the animals deserve love and care not just being left to be care by robots with no feelings for the animals

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No comment (No chance) 2 years ago

This job requires a lot of thinking on your feet which AI is not good at.

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Stacy Fordyce 3 years ago

in 2020-2021 its very possible but I doubt that some robots are going to take over biology because they need human to create them and give them the info to do that. So really its all the human that study the wild life then give the robots info if you think about it.

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Bryson Levake 1 year ago

I’m seeing this in 2023😂

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Unknown (No chance) 4 years ago

Robots and animals don't mix. Animals are living and wild, robots are tech and man made and we shouldn’t replace them.

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Deyah (No chance) 4 years ago

No way of replacing wildlife rangers with robots, because we all know robots can't nurture animals, their habitats as well as we can do it with more compassion

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bill 4 years ago

robots are very good at collecting data but are really only good at doing one thing it could require many robots just to study in many fields and many robots to study the traits of the millions of organisms but technology is advancing at a quick rate so they might take over in the simpler areas

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Jack Carroll (No chance) 4 years ago

Robots will need maintenance as well as the animals so no

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Sam Holiday (Low) 5 years ago

Robots can't really have a connection with animals.

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Alex (No chance) 5 years ago

A field that requires flexible thought processes, where a project may not have an easily definable goal at the outset or need to have it's aims adjusted on the fly.

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