From summarizing boring documents to helping you plan a vacation, artificial intelligence (AI) is already taking over some jobs that were once reserved for humans.
But experts are now warning about this some roles are about to be replaced completely by AI.
According to a new calculator developed by experts from Kick resumeThese jobs include some of the highest-paid and most prestigious professions.
And it’s especially bad news if you thought learning to code would protect your job from AI.
The calculator uses the latest research from Anthropic, developers Claude, and ChatGPT creators Open AI to assign a ‘risk level’ to 756 different roles, with just over 30 percent considered ‘high risk’.
The jobs most likely to be replaced are telephone operators and office administrative or support positions, with a risk level of 83 percent.
But highly skilled positions are also at risk, with computer programmers coming in a close second with a risk level of 67 percent.
If you want to know how likely you are to be replaced by a robot, try the interactive calculator below and find out for yourself.
The job risk calculator is based in part on a new measurement from Anthropic called perceived exposure.
This measures how many tasks in a given job are actually automated in professional environments, based on real data from Claude users.
A profession’s exposure is greater if people actually use AI to perform certain tasks and if those automated tasks make up a larger share of the overall work.
This is why the jobs most at risk of being replaced by AI are simple, repetitive tasks for which AI is already being used.
Peter Duris, CEO and co-founder of Kickresume, told the Daily Mail: ‘If you look at the top 20 jobs most likely to be replaced by AI according to our tool, there are a few patterns.
‘The biggest predictor of whether a job will be at risk seems to be whether AI can already handle certain parts of the job – and, if it can’t, how likely it is that it will soon be able to do so.
‘Tasks such as scheduling meetings and taking notes, coordinating with colleagues via email and processing documents are increasingly being taken over by AI.’
That also puts legal secretaries, administrative assistants and office support workers in the ‘high risk’ category as the third most threatened occupational category.
Research conducted by Claude maker Anthropic shows that AI is already starting to replace tasks in computer and office administration, but could soon expand to many more roles
They are closely followed by customer support representatives, who are already being replaced by automated chatbots, with a risk level of 63 percent.
Interestingly, Mr. Duris points out that AI risk has nothing to do with salary, with some of the highest-paying jobs most at risk.
“For example, Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers – a technical role that can come with a high salary – come in 19th on our list of the top 20 jobs at risk,” Duris said.
‘That’s because many tasks associated with this role can be automated.’
At the very other end of the scale are the professions that involve practical skills, which are least at risk of being replaced by AI.
Stonemasons, piling operators, painters, roofers and various other trades all faced a zero percent risk of being replaced by AI, according to Kickresume.
Mr Duris says: ‘Someone must be physically present. You can’t pass that on to a computer.’
Similarly, roles that require a distinctly human touch were completely safe, with special education teachers and librarians also scoring a zero percent risk score.
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If your job carries a high AI risk score, Mr. Duris says you don’t necessarily need to change fields or quit your favorite job.
But it could be a good time to think about how you can make yourself more resilient to AI replacement.
He says, “You can improve your skills and learn how to use AI. If AI takes over certain tasks, there is usually still someone who controls the tool, supervises it and checks whether the results hold up.’
There have already been some notable staff reductions as companies scramble to cut costs by replacing expensive staff with computers.
In February, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey cut nearly half the workforce at his payments company Block, laying off more than 4,000 people, specifically citing AI as the reason.
The good news, however, is that AI doesn’t seem to be replacing a significant number of humans at this point.
If AI were to replace humans across the economy, we would expect to see rising unemployment in the most exposed positions, such as programmers and customer service representatives.
Still, Anthropic’s analysis found that there has been no widespread increase in unemployment among workers in highly AI-exposed roles since 2022, the year ChatGPT launched to the public.
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey (pictured) cut nearly half the workforce at his payments company Block, laying off more than 4,000 people, specifically citing AI as the reason.
However, research shows that AI adoption has not led to higher unemployment levels for the most at-risk jobs (yellow and purple lines) compared to less exposed jobs.
On the other hand, experts warn that there may be a delay in hiring for some of these positions.
Recent research from Stanford University suggests that AI’s impact on overall employment is likely small, but could be partly responsible for the tough graduate job market.
In Great Britain, the number of vacancies on the labor market has almost fallen halved since the peak in 2022.
While this so-called vacancy compression is undoubtedly influenced by broader economic factors, some experts suggest that AI could have had an influence.
Mr Duris added: “We are already seeing the impact, with fewer online job openings year on year in sectors highly exposed to AI – especially in the UK.
‘It also shows up in the way people talk about their own jobs. In a survey we conducted last spring, 21% of respondents said they had lost a job due to AI or knew someone who had.
“That’s not a measure of how many jobs have disappeared, but it does indicate how close demand already feels.”
