What is this activity?
Worried that robots are coming for your future career? In Could AI Replace This Job?, you step into the shoes of a career explorer to challenge the myth that automation will simply wipe out human workers.
Look at the 12 diverse careers – ranging from lawyers and doctors to games developers and social media influencers. For each career, you will discover which routine tasks AI can handle and which core duties require irreplaceable human traits. Rather than a bleak look at job loss, this interactive tool shows you how humans and technology can team up for the future.
What will I learn?
- Human vs. Machine: You will learn to distinguish between repetitive administrative tasks (which AI can automate) and complex human skills (which it cannot).
- The Value of Soft Skills: You will discover why qualities like empathy, ethical judgment, creativity, and adaptability are more valuable than ever.
- Future-Ready Thinking: You will gain confidence in planning your career path by understanding how the job market is actually evolving.
Try the Tool
https://learningrmps.my.canva.site/ai-job-automation-classroom-activity
For Teachers: Reframing the AI and Careers Conversation
This interactive tool is designed to provide the stimulus for a discussion of the future workplace. Although originally developed to be used as part of the Ethics of AI lessons. It serves as a powerful anchor for course choice periods, careers education, PSHE, or philosophical discussions on human purpose.
Why it works in the classroom:
- Moral & Ethical Debates: It frames the conversation around the deeper moral questions of technology – asking what makes human labour valuable and whether efficiency should always trump human connection.
- Course Choice Relevance: It is timed perfectly for course choice season, helping pupils look past simple job titles to focus on the transferable skills they need to cultivate. It explicitly connects those choices back to the critical thinking, empathy, and ethical reasoning developed right inside the RMPS classroom.
- Cross-Curricular Utility: While a natural fit for RMPS, ethics, and guidance periods, it provides a valuable framework for teachers across all subjects and career education programs to discuss the changing nature of work.
Suggested Discussion Questions:
- The Irreplaceable Human: Looking at the careers you explored, which human quality do you think is hardest for an AI to replicate? Why?
- Connecting to RMPS: How do the evaluation and ethical reasoning skills we practice in RMPS help protect or elevate human roles in an automated world?
- Course Choices and Skills: When choosing your subjects today, how are you ensuring you build the uniquely human skills that an algorithm cannot copy?
Suggested Use: Use this as a core activity during course choice guidance slots, or as a thoughtful introduction to a unit discussing technology, ethics, and the future of society.
