I am not sure how relevant this question is on this sub but ,at the risk of sounding dumb, is it possible that managerial jobs will be taken over by AI some day? if so, do you think something like that could happen in our lifetime?

No, at least not in the foreseeable future.

Think about how AI even functions. You either need to supply the AI with data it can base it's decisions on or allow the AI to learn from itself (or a mix of both).

Is there an existing dataset that tracks the decisions managers have made, the conditions under which the given decisions were made, and the outcome of said decision? I doubt it.

Ok then our second option is to create an AI, give it some behavioural boundaries and let it loose, deciding how to manage a branch of some store or a department in some company. This would allow it to learn based on feedback (I'm not sure in what form the feedback would arrive to the AI, a whole problem on its own). This is also a terrible terrible idea that no company would greenlight.

All this to say, it's very unlikely that we will see positioms that require subjective reasoning to automated away, since there is no way to tell whether a decision was good or bad, an AI is unable to learn without bias and perform the job better than any human would.

People who are afraid of automation often overestimate how advanced AI is. Computer don't have shit on the human brain.

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