In general, what possibilities are there for reinventing job descriptions that could be replaced by an automated AI solution?
My initial ideas include:
With AI technology at its current stage (or at least reasonably close to this stage), the jobs you proposed may very well be openings created by AI automation. However, sufficiently advanced AI technology--- the kind that can function as general purpose labor replacement--- will make even these jobs obsolete. This is because such an AI would be able to improve itself and as a result would surpass human level intelligence---meaning that it would take actions which we would not necessarily be able to understand or justify.
This is all assuming that the intelligence of humans is not some kind of upper limit on the possibilities of intelligence in general. As far as I know there is no reason to think we represent such an upper limit.
To summarize...will such jobs exist?
Sub-human artificial intelligence: sure. Beyond-human artificial intelligence: no reason to think they would be necessary as the AI can do them itself.
AI production overseers - People who will command AI to build and control mines and factories. It's like a strategic game, but in the real world.
Explanation: AI even with the intellect of a bee and ability to understand/execute commands in combination with appropriate technologies will be enough to create robots, which will be able to build mines and factories to build new robots or things. Nevertheless, this is can be not enough to build an efficient production. Therefore, an overseer of each production will command it in order to establish or maintain production at the necessary level.
This job can also become obsolete if the AI reaches a high enough level to substitute overseers. However, even if AI become smarter than people, this doesn't guarantee that it will understand people better than overseer human. Therefore, even in this case, it's not a good idea left AI without control by humans.
Their job would be to make sure they (AI) don't accidentally become our overlords.
Each robot that replaces a human worker is taxed. This line of thought was influenced by Bill Gates's recommendation on adding taxes for robots and an article on universal basic income.
If the gold rush for AI puts many of us out of work (which is quite possible), we should find a way to minimize its impact on the society. One way would be to tax each robot a reasonable amount (not to exceed the cost of human labor) so that it can go to a super-fund for universal basic income. That fund can be used to give everyone in that community a basic salary, so it can prevent hunger, homelessness, and other problems associated with poverty. In my humble opinion, it will be very difficult to implement. Some countries and cities are testing this as a proof-of-concept for now. We will see how that works out.
People that sell AI robots.
This may be a bit far-fetched. Let's say, in the next few centuries, the AI becomes advanced enough to earn their own civil rights through the supreme court or legislative branch. We should have experts with the good relationship with AIs. We should give them enough knowledge and tools to make sure AIs see our existence as beneficial to them.
It could be part of law enforcement or the military with experts in various fields of AI/technology, who are also physically fit to go into battles when needed.
People who encourage the building of jobs and careers that are always hard to automate. As a result, the human being will always have value. We should inspire our entrepreneurs to have a good balance of automation and manual jobs. What if all of your AIs fail in one day and your competition wins because they had more human labor.
