{"id":784867,"date":"2026-07-07T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784867\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T13:34:18","slug":"federal-government-report-reveals-which-jobs-are-most-at-risk-of-artificial-intelligence-disruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784867\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal government report reveals which jobs are most at risk of artificial intelligence disruption"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hands-on jobs like tradies are the most likely to weather the storm of artificial intelligence<\/a> as a new report reveals the roles most at risk by the advancing technology.<\/p>\n

For the first time, the federal government has dug into the jobs data to analyse the impacts of AI over the four years since ChatGPT and generative tools began to be used in 2022. <\/p>\n

Although the report found no significant impact to overall employment growth and no major shifts in the types of jobs Australians are doing, it did highlight which jobs may be exposed to AI-related disruption.<\/p>\n

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Tradies were on solid ground with hands-on jobs the least exposed, including plumbers, electricians, child and aged care workers.<\/p>\n

But desk jobs like accountants, receptionists and marketing professions are more at risk.<\/p>\n

Workers in jobs most exposed to AI are more likely to be women and those with university degrees. <\/p>\n

Men make up 70 per cent of the workers in safer jobs and fewer are tertiary qualified.<\/p>\n

\"WhichWhich jobs are most at risk according to the report. Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n

But right now Australia\u2019s jobs market is weathering the AI storm.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe find that employment has continued to grow, it\u2019s continued to grow for young people as well who are thought to be most exposed and we\u2019re overall seeing ongoing resilience in the Australian jobs market,\u201d said chief economist and report author Matt Cowgill.<\/p>\n

There was a softening in employment growth for those jobs deemed most exposed to AI, growing by 5.6 per cent compared to 9.5 per cent growth for the jobs deemed least exposed to AI. <\/p>\n

Some of those highly exposed roles bucked the trend, like software developer employment which grew 25 per cent between November 2022 and February 2026. <\/p>\n

Cowgill said there were reasons to believe Australia\u2019s resilient jobs market was not a result of businesses trying to play catch-up with the technology. <\/p>\n

\u201cAustralia is actually one of the world\u2019s biggest users of AI,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the second reason to doubt this is just because of slow adoption is even in the US, which is the frontier of this issue, they\u2019re still seeing their overall jobs market fair reasonably well.\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal Employment Minister Amanda Rishworth described the findings as encouraging news, with plans to use the report as a base framework. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe good news is, we\u2019re not seeing a big shift or disruption,\u201d Rishworth said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we\u2019ve established this baseline framework ,we certainly want to do ongoing reporting on this.\u201d<\/p>\n

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