What happens to the work people do today?
Pick a job family to see what machines carry, what the person keeps, and what the job becomes. Then the jobs non-HITL creates.
Every job today has a non-HITL version.
The question is not whether a job disappears, but which part moves to the network and what the person does instead. Six families of work, with non-HITL at the centre. Click one.
Air traffic controllers, grid and plant operators, rail signallers, security analysts, ship’s officers of the watch.
From watching screens → to setting the rules
Speed and informationTruck and van drivers, couriers, crane and forklift operators, train drivers, drone pilots.
From driving one vehicle → to running a fleet
PredictabilityHazardMiners, deminers, firefighters, nuclear technicians, offshore and power-line workers, soldiers.
From going in → to sending in
HazardAuditors, inspectors, claims adjusters, notaries, compliance and identity analysts.
From checking samples → to judging disputes
ProofCode reviewers, accounts payable, buyers, loan officers, schedulers, back-office teams.
From approving every item → to writing the mandate
Speed and informationProofClinicians, nurses, teachers, coaches, negotiators, leaders, craftspeople.
From the paperwork → to the person in front of you
Value multipliesFrom watching screens to setting the rules
Decision support now. Machine-run drone airspace is already being built. Machine-run grids and plants from around 2035.
Watch screens, answer alarms and decide in seconds, in shifts limited by fatigue.
The network resolves routine conflicts and alarms itself, and explains what it did.
Exception manager: sets the margins, takes the cases no rule covers, and investigates what went wrong.
From driving one vehicle to running a fleet
Mines and ports now. Machine-only corridors around 2035. Inside the home around 2040.
One person, one vehicle, one shift.
Vehicles drive themselves in machine-only corridors and depots, and one remote operator supervises many.
Fleet controller, then exception handler: the person called when a vehicle meets something it has never seen.
From going in to sending in
Already in mining and on the battlefield. Demining, energy and emergency services follow over the next decade.
The person goes in, and carries the risk.
The machine goes in first: it maps, cuts, clears and carries. The person directs from a safe distance.
Mission commander: plans, decides and answers for what the machines do.
From checking samples to judging disputes
Around 2035, when a signed machine record counts as evidence.
Check a sample, after the fact, based on what people say happened.
Every machine action is signed as it happens, and checks run on everything, all the time.
Judge of the exception: what a record means, who was at fault, what is fair.
From approving every item to writing the mandate
Around 2030, as standing mandates let agents act for people and firms.
Approve item by item, often without the time to check.
Agents act within a standing mandate: what, how much, for how long. Only what is hard to reverse comes back to a person.
Mandate designer: decides what an agent may do, and audits how it used that power.
From the paperwork to the person in front of you
Gradually, from now.
A large part of the day goes to records, scheduling and logistics.
Machines carry the records, the scheduling and the logistics, with proof. The person carries the relationship.
The same job, multiplied: more time for judgement, and for the person in front of you. See where humans win.
And the jobs non-HITL creates
Factory jobs built the last middle class. Expert work, proven by its record rather than a diploma, can build the next one.