‘Dirty Jobs’ Host Mike Rowe Has a Fix for AI Labor Panic: ‘Learn Something That Can’t Be Replaced With a Robot’ (Video)
thewrap.comartificial intelligence has made Fox Business’ “How America Works” host Mike Rowe revert to the “same old broken record” he’s been repeating for the past 20 years: learn a skill that’s in demand.“It’s tough to get the poop back in the goose, especially with a thing like this.
So yeah, I’m concerned, but I don’t really know what panic is going to do for the average person who’s looking at how is this going to impact my career, my life, my ability to provide for my family,” Rowe said while on a recent episode of “Fox and Friends.”That’s when the former host of “Dirty Jobs” returned to the advice he’s been giving for decades. “Learn something that can’t be replaced with a robot or with artificial intelligence.
Those jobs are screamingly open rights now — plumbers, steamfitters, pip fitters, mechanics, electricians.”Rowe pointed to his own organization, the mikeroweWORKS Foundation as proof there are lucrative careers to be made in trade professions.
He cited that, of the roughly 1,700 people his foundation has trained, many of them are making over six figures, “all of them in the skilled trades.”“I use any opportunity I can to pivot and tap the country on the shoulder and say, ‘Hey look.
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