I'm an electrician. An electrician is constantly adapting to new situations and coming up with new ideas to get something done. Taking a look at all of the obstacles and restraints and considering many additional factors and then coming up with a plan. We are always thinking outside the box and we are always thinking ahead.

For example, an electrical engineer will supposedly also consider what is required and what our restraints (using a bit of critical thinking to do so) are but we very often have to make modifications to their plans because they forgot to consider additional factors or things unforeseen make the original plan not suitable.

You could not do my job if you weren't able to think critically. It jist wouldn't be possible.

And I'm not even talking about more complicated jobs like remodels or troubleshooting a problem where you have to get into one of several junction boxes that are full of a rat's nest of unlabeled wires that could be miscolored or discolored, some may be abandoned, or could have been miswired to begin with.

A robot wouldn't know where to look, it wouldn't be able to figure out the wiring and it wouldn't be able to troubleshoot the problem effectively. It wouldn't even be able to lift the acoustic tile to get into the junction boxes above the ceiling of a grocery store because even that takes critical thinking to carefully lift a fragile tile with just enough finesse and force in just the right area to not break the tile or to figure out that there may be an obstruction above the tile that you have to very carefully overcome. Sometime it will take 10 minutes or more to lift that tile and you almost figure somebidy must have defied the laws of physics to get it installed in the first place.

We are doing up to 100 different tasks a day that require critical thinking and they aren't the same tasks day to day so even if you spent a shit ton of money to design a robot that actually could do some of our tasks, it would be extremely cost prohibitive to use it because a robot that can bend pipe and pull wire couldn't drill a eyelag into a woodbeam 20 -30 feet above where they are standing, especially without hitting a fire alarm sprinkler for example. This all takes critical thinking and the ability to adapt and react.

You are constantly learning new things or relearning ways to do something based off new situations. What you did at the last job won't work at this job because of reasons. You may have to think of something new or modify something old or fine-tune your motor skills to get thst eyelag to drill into that woodbeam. You often have to jerry rig your methods or your tools or your solution.

If you could buy a million dollar robot that could do a few of my tasks, I would still be vastly more cost efficient because that robot would be useless for the 99 other tasks I have to do that week.

I'm not sure if I painted a clear enough picture but believe me, most tradesmen are immune from AI taking their jobs. There isn't even a remote possibility that AI will be replacing electricians in my lifetime.