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Is a plumbing career the future?
Skilled trades are regarded as safe from automation but still face social resistance.
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There is a rise in interest in plumbing courses such as those offered by City of Westminster College (above) in London, but there remains social resistance to the trade as a career choice.
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Emma Jacobs
Plumbing is the future. Or so Professor Geoffrey Hinton, the “godfather of AI”, has said. “The jobs that are going to survive AI for a long time are jobs where you have to be very adaptable and physically skilled, and plumbing’s that kind of job.”
He is not the only one. Mr Jensen Huang, chief executive of chipmaker Nvidia, told Channel Four News: “If you’re an electrician, you’re a plumber, a carpenter – we’re going to need hundreds of thousands of them to build all of these factories.”
