With AI in 2030 - Part 2

Here are my thoughts on what will happen with AI in 2030. In the first part I mentioned what I think will happen in 2030 in Agriculture, Education and Healthcare. Let me continue with three additional sectors. I understand that I may not be able to cover all segments because I am not aware of those. The six sectors I selected are based on the knowledge I have, read about it or have worked in it. 

Please bear with my choices of industries … 🙏

Manufacturing -  

Manufacturing as a sector has a history where it evolved every couple of decades or so. An example can be how machines were introduced, mass production happened, automation and most recently digitisation. These are termed as Industry 1.0 to 4.0. I believe in the next 5 years, AI will help manufacturing improve accuracy and quality. As of today these are still dependent on either human touch or decision making which AI can help automate. 

Within manufacturing, there are some sectors such as mining which will be greatly benefited. Through geo-thermal image analysis AI will help in reducing the mining work and by improving the output as well as minimising the risk to humans. I expect IOT to become much more relevant and prevalent in this sector which has not happened in the last five years. One of the reasons behind lack of IOT adoption may be the lack of consumer enthusiasm itself … 🙋 

Services - 

Social services have a potential to improve with AI; we already discussed education as a sector. Others in social services will have a similar impact. Personal services such as healthcare services will use AI to operationally improve themselves. With AI patients/ consumers will have a better experience and care. Most of the disruption in services will happen to business services. Think about a service a Financial Analyst offers. There are finite products, each product has specific information, there are rules specific to each product such as price, taxation, legal, etc … 👏 

If a human being can learn this service in 2 to 3 months, this can be done by AI through an agentic interface or similar. However, we need to understand that humans need to feed the data, train the models and tweak the output for months before it can act as a self-serve. However this and similar use cases of services will be disrupted by 2030. 

Refresher quote for you - 

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realise how close they were to success when they gave up.”

― Thomas A. Edison

Note - A lot of people have reservations about AI regarding the money being spent, power it needs, water to cool it down, environmental impacts and so on. And I get it. I believe Humanity will take care of those as we move forward; just like all other evolutions. Time will tell; we are getting closer. Hence the above quote.  

Technology - 

I am a technologist. Built cloud technology, web apps, mobile apps, sold and scaled to millions of Users; so please understand my affection. Over the last 2 decades technology has grown and now for most of the countries its impact is close to 10 percent on the GDP of the country. In 2025 we are seeing coding being disrupted by AI tools and it will continue to happen. I often joke with friends that all coding languages are built by humans so they can easily be automated. Whatever is built by nature is hard to replicate; you get the point … 🏅  

In 2025, we saw part of software as a service (SAAS) evolving into service as a software. This will be bigger by 2030.

AI with localised and personalized LLMs will expedite Customer service, automations in research and so on. I am sure before 2030 there will be LLM on every mobile phone on the planet. This holds the potential to educate humanity for good. 

So this is 2030 for me. I believe sectors such as retail, transportation, construction, metals and chemicals will also get better with AI. Bitcoin, DeFi, Web3 and other technologies will propel AI further.

In 2026, every new, existing, start up or mature company has to adopt AI to be productive, save time and/ or save money.

Additionally, you may have a question on what will happen to jobs with the explosion of AI in the next 4 to 5 years. Is anyone thinking about what may happen in the next 10 or 20 years? 

Disclaimer, you should read- I worked for a recruitment HR tech company for a decade plus, so take my pointers with a pinch of salt. With this, I am suggesting that I know a lot about the topic … 🏆

• Similar to other technology revolutions, there will be displacement of jobs. Some of the jobs will become redundant, some will get better and some will be eliminated. Example - video editor or social media marketer as a job did not exist for more than a decade. 

• Second, the impact on jobs can not be simply determined by AI. In parallel to Ai, there is robotics, automation, advanced transportation, off-shoring and so on. We need to consider all these together as businesses will adopt all these to get better outcomes. 

• Finally, in the case of jobs, the Government of each country can act as a significant proponent. On a global scale, different countries may react differently based on the labor base impacted because of the above technologies. 

These are my thoughts in December 2025. Let's reconnect next December on this, shall we?. 

PS - About the picture- do you believe AI + robots can do this better than human in 2030? See, I agree digital photos did not kill paper based photos. However, digital photos as a category became 100x as that of paper photos.

My two cents ....

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Swagat Irsale is a Growth and Scale Advocate. He works with start ups and scale ups and helps them grow revenue and build enterprise products which users use.

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