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Replying to OliSharpe's recent (March 2024) video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC9Op30QghI I'm extending my ScapegoatTheory

After AGI, the only jobs for humans will be the ones that require a human to be a human.
I divide these into three categories :
celebrity
prostitution
scapegoat
Celebrity is all the jobs where we want a human because we want to admire, or we aspire to be like, the human doing the job
Prostitution (or paid emotional labour) is all the jobs where we want to pay a human to care for, desire, or feel something about us. And it's important to us that it is a human having that qualia.
Scapegoat is all the jobs where we want a human to take moral responsibility or act as a moral shield to be blamed if something goes wrong with the AI / automated system behind the product of service we buy. Such moral shields will be expendable, and paid to firewall the corporations and their owners from legal liability or public shame.
Your point about school teachers hints at this. But I think we can already follow that hint to its logical end.
The skill of the celebrity is to win attention in vicious competition with all the other would-be celebrities. The skill of the prostitute is to fake the feelings they are paid for, as plausibly as possible. And the skill of the scapegoat is to appear as plausibly trustworthy and competent as possible until it becomes necessary to jettison them.
I think we are already seeing these roles evolving throughout the world of work and public life. Partly as automation is already invading. But better AIs will exacerbate the trend.

Quora Answer : Will artificial intelligence kill jobs in the future?

May 25, 2017

Yes.

Most analogies with previous waves of automation that suggest that new jobs will be created to replace the jobs lost to automation are wrong.

They're wrong because previous waves of automation basically replaced muscle power with mechanical power, but still required human intelligence to steer the machine. It "kicked the human upstairs" into a supervisory role.

AI, though, automates the supervisor.

So which jobs will AI kill?

It will kill ALL repetitive jobs.

Any job which consists of doing the same thing again and again can be automated. And if it becomes economically viable, then it will be automated.

The only work which isn't automateable is work that consists of a continuous stream of novelties.

There are no jobs which consist of a continuous stream of novelties. That's the opposite of what a "job" is; ie. a long-term contract to keep providing the same service.

So when I say AI will kill all repetitive jobs, I mean it will kill all jobs.

The only work left for humans will be one-off, short-term contracts to do specific bits of novelty creation.