Business consultant group Cognizant predicts in its book
‘What to do when machines do everything’ that there will 21 million new jobs
created as a direct result of AI and new technologies. Here are five job
listings of the future to get a head start picking your post-robot career
MASTER OF EDGE COMPUTING
This job is for an imaginary Fortune 500 company that has
realized its current IoT infrastructure is no longer going to cut it. The Edge
“Master” would be responsible for overhauling the current “wheel-and-spoke”
internet infrastructure into a decentralized one that utilizes edge computing.
This is necessary for a corporation of the future that needs more space and
processing capabilities for its massive data volumes.
QUANTUM MACHINE LEARNING ANALYST
This is a job for a whole different type of analyst. The
person in this job will be responsible for combining quantum information
processing with machine learning for better and faster solutions to realworld
business problems. The end goal is to build intelligence systems that can learn
from data.
ETHICAL SOURCING OFFICER
This is a job for when big corporations decide they want to
make decisions based off of what’s ethical, not what’s profitable. The sourcing
officer will “maintain the ethical footprint” of a company by making sure
indirect expenditures line up with shareholder values. For example, if a
company’s shareholders decided they wanted to make humane labor a main
priority, the ethical sourcing officer would be in charge of touring all
factories and monitoring work conditions at every level.
CHIEF TRUST OFFICER
In the future, investors are more connected and aware than
ever before, and organizations have no choice but to be extremely transparent.
However, secret cryptocurrency transactions prevail, and suspicion is
everywhere. The Trust Officer is responsible for clearing the cloud of
suspicion and proving to investors that the company they are putting their
money is operating with the utmost integrity.
MAN-MACHINE TEAMING MANAGER
According to Cognizant, the future of work depends on how
well humans and machines can collaborate. The teaming manager will be
responsible for figuring out what the strengths of the machine are and what the
strengths of the human are, and combining them to make an ultra-productive
worker team.
Source: THE ECONOMIC TIMES- 22nd November,2017
