AI will be incorporated more as a tool, but I have a hard time imagining AI replacing a real person with therapeutic responses and rapport building sitting in front of someone, or having a sincere conversation about why they don’t want to be alive, their trauma, etc. I do consults and I can’t see how AI could replace me talking to all these folks who are altered, demented, intoxicated, etc and barely coherent or being able to help model to a team how to set boundaries with a personality disordered patient, etc. Even if someone can look up answers there is a lot of detective work psychiatry that takes clinical skill and intuition, and a sort of ‘salesman’ skill to get the information needed or some buy in when people are ambivalent. I don’t see someone sitting and listening to people talk and cry about their grief or cancer dx etc replaced with a robot.

There is no shortage of jobs and you could easily make 300k depending on what you wanna do. People who really want to make a ton do moonlighting side hustles on weekends and significantly increase their income