It is without a doubt that Artificial intelligence is helping ordinary consumers in our everyday life, but the big question is what is the impact going to be on the jobs that were previously done by humans and especially of concern are the manufacturing and technology workers whose careers seem to be the most vulnerable. This article will focus mainly on Software quality assurance/ Testing jobs and broadly on other technology workers (Software developers, support professionals, customer support representatives, and even project managers). Before we understand the impact of artificial intelligence on Quality Assurance jobs, we need to know where we are in the AI journey. Regardless of how much hype there is around AI these days, AI is not a new concept. Ancient Greeks had myths about robots, while Chinese and Egyptians built automatons.

Today, the Council on Foreign Relations–sponsored Independent Task Force released The Work Ahead, a report on the American workforce in the 21st century. It does not make for comforting reading. The Work Ahead portrays a country where automation and other technological advances have rendered the economy unrecognizable--employment is no longer linked to economic security, the labor market is brutally divided between a prosperous tech-savvy elite and the struggling tech-illiterate, and the educational system is ill-equipped to prepare workers to succeed. And yet The Work Ahead does not blame technology per se, but rather a government and society that have consistently failed to adjust to economic reality--leaving workers to navigate a rapidly changing world without sufficient support or guidance. It doesn't have to be this way.

IT and engineering salaries in the U.S. rose 3.9 percent in 2015, the second-highest annual increase since 2010, according to a survey from IEEE-USA. The median income for IT and engineering professionals rose to US 135,000 in 2015, up from 130,000 in 2014, IEEE-USA said. Salaries rose nearly 4.3 percent between 2013 and 2014, after rising just 0.6 percent in 2013. Engineers working in systems and control, including the subspecialties of robotics and automation, control systems, industrial electronics and cybernetics, saw the largest salary increases in 2015. Their salaries rose 8.7 percent to 130,000.