Is Bulgaria Ready For the Challenges of the Present and the Future?

We are waiting for a few trends, major evolutionary steps that will change the concept of reality as we know it. Every radical change in human society in the past has been triggered by some of the key enabling this factors such as wood, stone, bronze, iron, steam, electricity, automation, to our times, with the introduction of the Internet and technology. Soon they will predict and change not only politics, economics, trade, culture and societies, but also our biology and ethics, Dr Mariana Todorova, BAS, wrote in her analysis.

Which are these trends?

Robotic, Automation and Artificial Intelligence. Future of Professions

According to McKinsey & Company's projections in 2022, about 47% of professions will switch to partial or complete automation or robotization. For 2025, the percentage rises to 52% to reach the expected level of 70% in 2035. There are opposite forecasts. On the one hand, technological optimists say that many jobs and professions will disappear, but it will give a chance to new ones that are more creative and more innovative, capable of showing new, unrecognized human potential.

In this respect, however, it is missed that machine training (one of the approaches to creating artificial intelligence) is advancing quite rapidly and will be improved to carry out increasingly sophisticated activities. Data indicate that not only professions with monotonous and repetitive functions but also those who process data such as accountants, journalists, TV speakers, legal counselors, doctors to diagnose elementary illnesses will gradually be displaced by machines. In these areas, professionals will remain in situations where complex problem solving is needed, eg. writing or processing more diverse information...