By Kevin Schaul, Shira Ovide
Publication Date: 2026-03-16 09:00:00
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No one has a perfect roadmap for the future, but researchers at GovAI, which studies technology policy, and the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank, used a novel approach to assess which workers might be best and least able to adapt to AI.
They concluded that many people who are most at risk as AI changes work are also those best placed to find a new job. You can use the search box and interactive table above to find out which careers have good prospects and which don’t.
But history shows that economists and researchers have done so I was bad at predicting the impact of new technologies on work and workers. So take predictions like this seriously, but not literally. Even researchers are conducting studies on AI in the workplace Be wary of them making useful but fallible guesses.
“All important questions about the impact of AI on the labor market are still unanswered”…