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Calculated automation risk
Minimal Risk (0-20%): This occupation appears difficult to replace end-to-end with current or near-future automation, including AI software and robotics. Roles in this range usually depend on human judgement, creativity, care, leadership, specialist expertise, or adapting to messy real-world situations. AI and machines may still change parts of the work, but the occupation is likely to remain a distinct human role.
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Our visitors have voted there's a low chance this occupation will be automated. This assessment is further supported by the calculated automation risk level, which estimates 18% chance of automation.
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Wages
In 2024, the median annual wage for Political Scientists was $139,380 ($67 per hour).
The median annual wage for Political Scientists was 181.6% higher than the national median annual wage, which stood at $49,500.
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The number of 'Political Scientists' job openings is expected to decline 3.1% by 2034
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As of 2024 there were 5,950 people employed as 'Political Scientists' within the United States.
This represents around < 0.001% of the employed workforce across the country
Put another way, around 1 in 25 thousand people are employed as 'Political Scientists'.
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Job description
Study the origin, development, and operation of political systems. May study topics, such as public opinion, political decisionmaking, and ideology. May analyze the structure and operation of governments, as well as various political entities. May conduct public opinion surveys, analyze election results, or analyze public documents.
O*NET-SOC code: 19-3094.00
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and even in terms of scientific data, they cannot be used in their entirety to create a portrait of current politics, as there are ideas that only current affairs can provide. such as the change in mass media that stopped being through TV, radio and newspapers and moved completely, or partially, to the internet, another of these changes is the undeniable access to social networks. These changes are so important that they have changed the current political scenario in a significant way, but as I said previously, they do not demonstrate the totality of human relations, an issue that also has significant changes such as, for example, the rise of Fenism, the increase in the rights of populations to deny and native peoples, segregation and emancipation of gender choices and sexual options, these changes that are very important and significant for humanity in general, were somewhat forced into the algorithm internally, something that, recently in the few weeks before the publication on March 5, 2023 of this comment caused problems in images that contained falsifications and delusions of reality, such as an image that contained two women, including one black, in the American legislature in the 19th century, a time when not even women Not even black people participated directly in the US political system, that is, they did not vote and could not be voted for any political position.
in short, for a robot to be a political scientist, it would need to be within the bonds of social reality, that is, to be, living in the real world, to be outside the binary system, something that is literally impossible even with a quantum computer as it would return to the binary system because this is the universal basis of computing, not just being made up of databases and having a perspective created by your life experiences and never in any way trying to have an answer for everything, as this can generate machine delusions. That's not human-centrism on my part, it's just an observation of reality. Furthermore, it is worth adding that a being cannot create a being more intelligent than itself, it is a basic mathematical concept, that is, it is not the AI that will become more intelligent than humans, it is the human being that will become more stupid every day.
Political information can be overwhelming, but advanced algorithms have the ability to process it faster and more accurately than any human.
There is no reason why we cannot replace or assist entire parliaments with robots and artificial intelligence, if we wish.
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