10 New Jobs that may Emerge from AI

AI assessors – Someone in this role will evaluate models, keeping track of how they’ve improved, what they are best at doing, and how much they are hallucinating.

AI auditors – Someone who dig down into the A.I. to understand what it is doing and why and can then document it for technical, explanatory or liability purposes.  

AI consistency coordinator – This job is about ensuring digital replicas remains  consistent as changes are made.

AI consultants – This job involves helping businesses adopt and implement AI by offering a strategic roadmap, technical expertise, and project leadership. The AI consultant must facilitate communication between a company’s departments to marry technical knowledge with business needs.  After deployment of AI, it is their job to help set up ways to monitor the outcomes. Besides possessing a robust AI education, the AI consultant will have to stay on top of trends and changes in the industry.

AI engineers – Unlike traditional IT roles, people in this position will fix the AI when it breaks, digging through the layers to determine what went awry, why it went wrong and how to repair it. Like a plumber, they’ll snake the pipes to clear out the system and figure out how to avoid the problem next time. This will be particularly important when it comes to models that have been highly customized to the organization.

AI ethicist – This role will involve building chains of defensible logic that can be used to support decisions made by AI (or by hybrid A.I.-and-human teams) to address both ethical and legal concerns.

AI integrators – These are experts who figure out how to best use AI in a company, then implement it. These jobs will be technical in nature, requiring a deep understanding AI while possession a knowledge of the company so that that AI can meet real business needs.

AI personality director – This person fine-tune the “personality” of the AI so that its style of interacting with employees and customers fits with the organization’s ethos. This can become an integral part of a company’s branding.

AI trainer – This is the job of helping the AI find and digest the best, most useful data and then teach the AI to respond in accurate and helpful ways.

AI translator (trust director) – People who understand AI well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers, so that they can make effective decisions. These workers will not only explain what the AI output means (especially when it is technical) but how trustworthy the information and conclusions are. This role may fall under that of compliance officer, helping organizations understand contracts and report written by AI.  

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How AI is Changing Entry Level Jobs

Rather than have rookie employees compile reports or write memos — things the A.I. is good at — you might have them start, say, creating new ideas for products right away. Traditionally, this kind of work would be reserved for deeply experienced workers, but it won’t need to stay that way. By empowering young, inexperienced workers, A.I. can enable them to be more entrepreneurial, faster. And this means that a greater range of the organization — with a wider range of perspectives — can be hunting for new great ideas or new areas for growth rather than busying themselves with repetitive office tasks. -New York Times 

Getting hired in the age of AI

If you can say you worked a job where you had to show resiliency and adaptability, those are things that employers are looking for. We are individuals with unique experiences, unique energy and unique resilience. That's what we're going to get hired for. – Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20250825-aneesh-raman-young-people-employment-opportunities-katty-kay-interview

AI automation versus collaboration

"Using AI well will require knowing when to automate versus when to collaborate. This is not necessarily a binary choice, and the boundaries between human expertise and AI’s capabilities for expert judgment will continually evolve as AI’s capabilities advance. Although collaboration is not intrinsically better than automation, premature or excess automation—that is, automation that takes on entire jobs when it’s ready for only a subset of job tasks—is generally worse than collaboration." -David Autor and James Manyika writing in The Atlantic 

CS Grads Can't Find Jobs

A recent graduate triple-majored in computer science, math, and computational science and has completed the coursework for a computer-science Ph.D. He would prefer to work instead of finishing his degree, but he has found it almost impossible to secure a job. “We’re in an AI revolution, and I am a specialist in the kind of AI that we’re doing the revolution with, and I can’t find anything.” -The Atlantic

AI Impacting Entry Level Jobs

“We have started seeing employers saying things like, 'If you have that computer science degree, do you have a philosophy minor so you can help me think about the ethical implications of what I'm building?'” – Aneesh Raman, chief economic opportunity officer at LinkedIn

AI's impact on the job search by college grads

"Recent history grads have a lower unemployment rate (4.6 percent) than recent computer science grads (6.1 percent), according to the New York Federal Reserve Bank. History is one of the most popular college majors among congressional staff members, and historians find work in some surprising places, such as the National Security Agency and the American Girl doll company." -Washington Post

Businesses Racing to Adopt AI: Speed without Control

If you don’t take steps now to centralize AI strategy, you’ll be left with a patchwork of disconnected tools, uncontrolled costs, and compliance nightmares. The winners in this era won’t be the ones who adopt AI fast, they’ll be the ones who adopt it wisely. Shadow AI isn’t going away; it’s going to accelerate as AI becomes embedded. -Unite AI

18 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

AI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workers - Axios

Will historians really be replaced by AI? They remain skeptical. – Washington Post  

21 Ways People Are Using A.I. at Work – New York Times

If You’re Trying to Get Into AI, This Is What You Need to Do – KD Nuggets

AI is already displacing these jobs - Axios

Meet your new office bestie: ChatGPT – Business Insider

Labor unions mobilize to challenge advance of algorithms in workplaces - Washington Post 

AI Is Forcing the Return of the In-Person Job Interview - Wall Street Journal

These workers don’t fear artificial intelligence. They’re getting degrees in it. - Washington Post

The Bull Market for Economists Is Over. It’s an Ominous Sign for the Economy. - New York Times

AI Is Here, and a Quiet Havoc Has Begun – Wall Street Journal

The next jobs downturn could mean an AI-induced purge of millions of workers - Axios

Whose job is safe from AI? -Tim Harford

SEO Is Dead. Say Hello to GEO – New York Mag

Data Scientists on AI’s chopping block? Microsoft Research sounds a career alarm – Times of India

AI Skills Needed in Many Postgrad Careers—Not Just Tech – Inside Higher Ed

Painters, nursing assistants, and more: Microsoft’s top 10 most AI-safe careers – CNBC

AI is helping students be more independent, but the isolation could be career poison – The Markup

Define Success Upfront

Before implementing AI solutions, define success upfront: “I insist on quantifiable metrics like time savings, quality improvements, or revenue increases. If we can’t measure it, we can’t prove it worked. This prevents scope creep and ensures we’re solving real problems, not just building cool technology. AI isn’t always the answer, but when it is, we know exactly why we’re using it and what success looks like.” -Claudia Ng in Toward Data Science

AI Solutions for Business

I take a problem-first approach rather than lead with AI solutions. Too many companies want to “do something with AI” without identifying what specific business problem they’re trying to solve, which usually leads to impressive demos that don’t move the needle. -Claudia Ng in Toward Data Science

CS Grads Struggle to Find Work

“I just graduated with a computer science degree from Purdue, and the only company that has called me for an interview is Chipotle.” Since graduating in 2023, a CS major from Oregon State says he has applied for 5,762 tech jobs. His diligence has resulted in 13 job interviews but no full-time job offers.”  -New York Times

How will AI affect my job?

The answer to the question, “How will AI affect my job?” might be better stated: “Does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled parts of my job or the low-skill parts?” If it’s the former, your pay and business value will fall. If it’s the latter where AI can do the mundane parts of your job for you, then you might get paid more (and it might get more fun). 

15 Articles about how Businesses are using AI

Who gets cheap flights and hotel upgrades? AI will decide. - Washington Post

Is It Still Disney Magic if It’s AI? – Wall Street Journal

Anthropic’s Claude AI became a terrible business owner in experiment that got 'weird' - TechCrunch  

AI Is Coming for the Consultants. Inside McKinsey, ‘This Is Existential.’ – Wall Street Journal

Managers let AI assess raises, promotions, even layoffs, survey finds - Axios 

Call Center Workers Are Tired of Being Mistaken for AI - Bloomberg 

Small businesses are using AI, but not spending much - Axios

‘It destroys the purpose of humanity’: Customers are saying no to AI - Washington Post

Consumers have less trust in offerings labeled as being powered by artificial intelligence – Wall Street Journal

Anthropic launches its first big disruption to the finance industry - Axios

How to Navigate an AI Bull Market – Wall Street Journal 

The Three Layers of ROI for AI Agents – Henry Pray

How AI could create the first one-person unicorn – Economist

Ad Agencies’ Low Growth Will Drag On as They Adjust to Era of AI, Barclays Says – Wall Street Journal

Small business AI adoption jumps to 68% as owners plan significant workforce growth in 2025 – Fox Business

The Question that Will Predict How AI Impacts Your Job

A clarifying question: does AI look like it is going to do the most highly skilled part of your job or the low-skill rump that you’ve not been able to get rid of? The answer to that question may help to predict whether your job is about to get more fun or more annoying — and whether your salary is likely to rise, or fall as your expert work is devalued. -Tim Harford

20 Articles about how AI is Affecting Jobs

Job listings looking for people with AI skills are rising fast – CBS News

How AI is impacting 700 professions — and might impact yours – Washington Post  

One in 12 US/UK Employees Uses Chinese GenAI Tools – InfoSecurity Mag

Will AI really wipe out white collar jobs? Tech insiders are split - CNN

Gen Z's broken school-to-work pipeline – Axios  

A robot stole my internship: How Gen Z’s entry into the workplace is being affected by AI – The Conversation

The rise of the AI-native employee – Elena’s Growth Scoop  

The new hot job in AI: forward-deployed engineers – Semafor

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready. - Washington Post

Welcome to Your Job Interview. Your Interviewer Is A.I. – New York Times

AI is transforming Indian call centers. What does it mean for workers? - Washington Post  

Freelancers in AI earn over 40% more per hour than those doing non-AI work, according to Upwork’s platform data of - Axios 

Which Workers Will A.I. Hurt Most: The Young or the Experienced? - New York Times

The four-day work week gets a new booster: AI - Axios

CEOs Start Saying the Quiet Part Out Loud: AI Will Wipe Out Jobs – Wall Street Journal 

As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI – The Guardian

How AI Vibe Coding Is Destroying Junior Developers' Careers -  Final Round AI

Will AI really wipe out white collar jobs? Tech insiders are split - CNN

AI is radically changing entry-level jobs, but not eliminating them – CNBC

‘Workforce crisis’: key takeaways for graduates battling AI in the jobs market - The Guardian

SEO Fades as GEO Rises

“Google has made it clear: AI is building the future of search. Google now ranks based on contextual relevance, not just keywords or backlinks. It uses AI and vector embeddings to evaluate who created content, how trustworthy it is, and how it fits within its broader knowledge graph. Most SEO tools and practices haven’t caught up. As new APIs and metrics become more accessible, we’ll see a new generation of SEO roles and tools emerge that align with how Google actually works.” -Digiday

AI's Impact on Middle-Tier Employees

From a purely financial perspective, it would increasingly make sense for companies to hire junior employees who used A.I. to do what was once midlevel work, a handful of senior employees to oversee them and almost no middle-tier employees. -New York Times

AI's Impact on Motivation

Despite the performance benefits, study participants who collaborated with gen AI on one task and then transitioned to a different, unaided task consistently reported a decline in intrinsic motivation and an increase in boredom. Across our studies, intrinsic motivation dropped by an average of 11% and boredom increased by an average of 20%. In contrast, those who worked without AI maintained a relatively steady psychological state. -Harvard Business Review

Research: What Happens when Workers Use AI

Our AI research findings carry important implications for the future of work. If employees consistently rely on AI for creative or cognitively challenging tasks, they risk losing the very aspects of work that drive engagement, growth, and satisfaction. Increased boredom, which our research showed following AI use, can also be a warning sign that these negative consequences might be on their way. The solution isn’t to abandon gen AI. Rather, it’s to redesign tasks and workflows to preserve humans’ intrinsic motivation while leveraging AI’s strengths. -Harvard Business Review