Do you think that the jobs that require the reading of human emotions will be less likely to be overtaken by machines? Jobs like sales? In sales, the most successful practitioners are those that can quickly identify what someone's motivating factors are. I wonder how a machine could do this? That said, I'm sure that someday they will be able to. But, how is it going to make you feel as a consumer knowing that you are being spoken to by a machine that has been programmed to know how to sway your opinion? Right now we have people that are highly trained to do this but yet because they are "people" we seem to be okay with it to an extent. These types of jobs and positions may be the last to be overtaken by machines in my opinion. But perhaps that's just me being a protectionist.