21 Aug 180821 – Robot Architects?

There has been much talk and media concern about the number of jobs that will be lost in the coming years through the AI revolution. The good news is that architects are way down the list at only a 2% likelihood

However, technical staff are not going to be as lucky. A situation I have forecast for many years:

There is a problem though. Because the research was conducted in the the USA, where architects require a similar level of knowledge, skills, education and experience as here in the UK, the idiots (for the BBC) who translated that research into English failed to realise/understand that Chartered Architectural Technologists (there are not, and no need for, any in the USA) are NOT architects, or as qualified, and therefore out of ignorance included them in the chart as architects at No.338 as less than 2% likely to be automated:

Any Chartered Architectural Technologist would, currently, need to re-qualifiy from the beginning if they wanted to be an architect. They should therefore obviously be listed a lot nearer technicians with whom they share educational qualifications, knowledge and skills:

My advice to anybody who has just received their “A” results, or about to start on “A” levels, who wants a career ‘in architecture’ that the only career ‘in architecture’ with a future is that of architect. If you don’t fancy University or are not ‘academically’ minded there are both part-time and apprenticeship course routes into the profession.