Is My Job Safe From AI?
Real, task-level verdicts for 8 common roles — what's already automated, what still needs a human, and an honest timeline for each.
Financial Analyst
At RiskPartially. The parts of the job that are really 'build a spreadsheet and summarize it' are already being done by AI tools inside Excel, Bloomberg, and standalone copilots. The parts that involve defending a number in a room are not.
AI Exposure: 68/100 →
Marketing Manager
At RiskThe execution half of the job — copy, creative variants, campaign reporting — is heavily automated already. The strategy half — knowing which campaign to run and why it will or won't work for this specific audience — is not, and is becoming more valuable precisely because execution got cheap.
AI Exposure: 63/100 →
Customer Service Representative
High RiskYes, more than most roles. Chatbots and AI voice agents now resolve a large share of tier-1 tickets — password resets, order status, simple refunds — without a human touching them. What's left is disproportionately the hard, emotional, or ambiguous cases.
AI Exposure: 78/100 →
Paralegal
At RiskThe document-heavy half of the job is genuinely at risk — contract review, discovery, and legal research are some of the strongest current use cases for AI. The client- and court-facing half, and the professional judgment about what actually matters in a filing, is not.
AI Exposure: 61/100 →
Graphic Designer
At RiskProduction design — resizing, templated social assets, stock-style illustration — is now genuinely faster and cheaper with AI. Original art direction, brand systems, and understanding why a design should look a certain way for a specific audience are not replaceable the same way.
AI Exposure: 70/100 →
Executive Assistant
Moderate RiskScheduling and inbox triage are largely solved by AI tools now, but the trust-based, judgment-heavy parts of the role — knowing what an executive actually needs before they ask — are harder to replace than most people assume.
AI Exposure: 47/100 →
Accountant / Bookkeeper
High RiskBookkeeping-level accounting — reconciliation, categorization, standard journal entries — is one of the most automated categories of white-collar work today. Advisory work — tax strategy, audit judgment, client-specific guidance — is not.
AI Exposure: 74/100 →
Software QA Tester
Moderate RiskScripted, repetitive test execution is heavily automated by AI-assisted testing tools now. Exploratory testing — the ability to think like a user and find the bug nobody scripted for — is still a distinctly human skill.
AI Exposure: 58/100 →