Jobs AI Is Unlikely to Replace Quiz

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1. Which set of traits does the guide say protects jobs from AI replacement?
   • High pay, a college degree and long job tenure
   • Typing speed, spreadsheet skills and fluency in several languages
   • Physical dexterity in unstructured settings, trust, accountability and novel judgment
   • Working night shifts, working in a union and working in government
2. Why do physical trades such as plumbing resist automation, according to Moravec's paradox?
   • Perception and motor skills that toddlers master are harder for machines than abstract reasoning
   • Computers will never be able to do mathematics better than people
   • Automation always creates more jobs than it destroys
   • Robots become cheaper every year at a fixed rate
3. Why does the structural engineer's sign-off role persist even when software does the calculations?
   • Software cannot perform load calculations
   • A licensed person carries legal liability for the design
   • Clients prefer handwritten drawings
   • Engineering software is illegal in most countries
4. Which statement does the guide identify as a misconception?
   • Economics can make a technically automatable task not worth automating
   • Protected jobs may still have some tasks automated
   • Protections reflect current technology and social choices
   • A job that is safe from replacement will stay unchanged
5. According to the guide, why might a task that can technically be automated still be done by people?
   • Automation software is always less accurate than people
   • Governments ban all automation of manual work
   • Labor may cost less than the equipment needed to automate it
   • Workers must approve every new machine
6. In the task-scoring method, why is a role with 70 percent routine document work exposed even if its other tasks are protected?
   • Employers can merge positions once the routine majority of hours is automated
   • Document work is legally required to be automated
   • The protected tasks will automatically become routine
   • O*NET classifies it as a dangerous occupation
7. Which of these is named in the guide as a concrete robotics bottleneck?
   • Robots cannot be connected to the internet
   • Handling soft, deformable objects and gripping unfamiliar items reliably
   • Robots cannot run on electricity for long
   • Robots are unable to follow written instructions
8. What does the guide describe as the most likely near-term pattern for protected jobs?
   • They will be fully automated within a few years
   • They will disappear because trust in AI will rise immediately
   • They will be unaffected by AI in any way
   • Paperwork and documentation get automated while the human core becomes more important