{"id":690308,"date":"2026-05-23T22:30:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690308\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:30:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:30:14","slug":"how-to-ai-proof-your-job-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/690308\/","title":{"rendered":"How to AI-proof your job"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summary<\/p>\n

AI has reduced US monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs in the past year, according to a Goldman Sachs report.
\n Experts say focusing on creative, interpersonal and physical skills can help protect your career from automation.
\n Learning to work with AI tools and agents may be essential as the technology becomes pervasive.<\/p>\n

\n AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/p>\n

\n Meta. Nike. Intuit. UPS. It seems every day a new company announces layoffs, often citing AI as the cause. AI is already reducing US monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs in the past year, according to a recent Goldman Sachs<\/a> report.\n <\/p>\n

\n Knowledge workers face the sharpest exposure, as their output is exactly what AI replicates best, at superhuman speed, around the clock.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cThe most valuable jobs, the ones that we tell people to go to school for \u2013 software engineer, finance professional, accountant, lawyer \u2013 a lot of these cognitive professions, those are the ones that are the most vulnerable\u2026 to AI automation,\u201d David Shrier, professor of AI & Innovation at Imperial College London, told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n But humans will always be needed in some form \u2013 and there are steps you can take to increase the chances you\u2019ll\ufeff protect your own job.\n <\/p>\n

\n Before you can future-proof your career, you need a clear-eyed view of what you do in your job. Think of jobs as a \u201ccollection of tasks we switch between, often many times a day,\u201d Oded Nov, a professor of technology management at New York University, told CNN.\n <\/p>\n

\n Consider which of those tasks are the most repeatable, rule-based computer tasks, like processing expense reports, which takes raw data and converts it into a different form. The more predictable a function, the more vulnerable it is to automation.\n <\/p>\n

\n The CEO of Cloudflare wrote in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal<\/a> that he recently laid off 20% of his work force, focusing on \u201cmeasurers\u201d: middle management and those who work on audits, operations, compliance, etc.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cAI isn\u2019t coming for builders or sellers, but it is coming for measurers,\u201d he wrote. \u201cTireless, independent, efficient and available, AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible even for the best employees.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Some jobs, such as those in hospitality, healthcare and skilled trades, still need someone physically present to do much of the work. Robotics is at least a decade away from replacing those roles.\n <\/p>\n

\n After your self-audit, focus on skills that are not repeatable, predictable and rule based.\n <\/p>\n

\n In addition to physical duties, AI is not yet as good at handling tasks that require emotional and social awareness, such as \u201cunderstanding organizational culture or group dynamics,\u201d Nov said.\n <\/p>\n

\n AI tends to be recursive, rather than inventive or creative.\n <\/p>\n

\"AI<\/p>\n

\n \u201cAI is bad at creativity, but it\u2019s surprisingly good at elaborating on creative prompts,\u201d Shrier said. \u201cBut you still need the human to come up with the idea and guide the AI to do something interesting.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Invest in those skills. If part of your job involves sales and convincing people to sign a contract, focus on the interpersonal skills that help you build trust with clients. Customers might go to AI to research, but they usually still want to deal with a human being when making big purchases.\n <\/p>\n

Embrace AI and learn how to make it work for you<\/p>\n

\n AI will soon become a pervasive part of our lives, just like the internet.\n <\/p>\n

\n Get familiar with the major AI systems \u2013 ask various AI chatbots about your job and how they can help make your work more efficient, then give their suggestions a try. Play around with new coding tools that help you create your own app and website without needing to write your own code.\n <\/p>\n

\n But chatbots aren\u2019t what makes AI so useful in the workplace, it\u2019s AI agents, or programs that run automatically, make decisions and take actions autonomously. You can learn how to make your own, and a chatbot can help. Try the prompt: \u201cI want to learn how to make an AI agent. Walk me through the steps to create an agent that can do [specific task]\u201d.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIn some ways it\u2019s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur, because if you can think of it, you can make it,\u201d Shrier said. \u201cThere are people making robust enterprise-grade software that is built off of a prompt in plain English.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Even roles that include a lot of AI-achievable tasks will still need humans in some way.\n <\/p>\n

\n AI has particularly affected the coding industry. But Anthropic employees still edit and review code even if they\u2019re not writing it, CEO Dario Amodei said at the World Economic Forum in January.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cIn best-case scenarios, the more mundane tasks that are part of people\u2019s jobs today will be handed over to AI, while the more interesting and rewarding tasks will be done by humans, probably with some support of AI,\u201d Nov said. \u201cIt\u2019s very likely, if history is a guide, that new jobs, consisting of new collections of tasks, will be created.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Summary AI has reduced US monthly payroll growth by roughly 16,000 jobs in the past year, according to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-690308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/688545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}