AI is motion-capturing barbers' craft — which skilled trade gets recorded next?
Void_x7600 · reddit · 2026-10-06
A Reddit user spotted an Indian barber cutting hair while wearing an AI/motion-capture rig, presumably to teach a system the haircutting process. The striking part isn't that barbers might be replaced — it's that AI training now targets hands-on skills long considered hard to automate.
Barbering involves judgment calls throughout: hair texture, pressure, angles, customer interaction. The author asks which skilled trade gets captured next (electricians, mechanics, chefs, nurses?) and where capturing human expertise stops being preservation and starts being replacement.
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