Please help!

Hi guys,

I’m currently an EEE student but I’m considering switching to CS or robotics and ai. This is due to my increasing worry about ai, and the implications of its development for future engineers. Could electronic and electrical engineers be made redundant by ai? Could the degree be seen as less valuable in the future due to AI being able to the tasks electronic/ electrical engineers do? Obviously no one can predict the future but at the rate ai development is accelerating, what do you guys think?

Should I stay on my degree and then take a masters in ai/ computer science?

Thanks for reading

I think AI will make engineers lives better, automation of tedious & repetitive tasks allowing more time & energy to be focused on the important decisions.
Will some roles disappear, probably, but there will probably also be a whole host of new opportunities. Engineers who learn to best leverage AI applications will be in a great place..

Hi, thank you for the reply. I’m just worried about the job security in 20-30 years when I’m supposed to be at the top of my career. Ai is already advancing at an unprecedented rate and maybe within that time frame it can do everything EE engineers can do.

AI is really good at interpolating work & terrible at extrapolating based solutions.
Ultimately do you think industries are going to need expertise in electrical physics applications or not. If you don’t believe that will be an industry then fair enough.

The thing is, I don’t know if if industries will need expertise in electrical physics in 20-30 years, which is why I’m asking for advice. What do you think?

I can’t imagine electrical physics will have disappeared, the methods to harness & apply it maybe different but fundamentally I don’t see any way we won’t be using electrical energy & electrical power, when we can’t live without it. Isn’t AI supposedly energy limited, how will AI operate without complex electrical power systems.