alt.hn

3/16/2026 at 3:15:37 PM

Which jobs are most vulnerable to AI?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2026/jobs-most-affected-ai-automation/

by zh3

3/16/2026 at 8:04:29 PM

Author here. The new contribution of the research[0] this article visualizes is a measure of the adaptability of workers across different occupations, should they be displaced by AI.

> But there’s another dimension to the picture. Some workers will find it easier to adapt, the researchers argue, based on factors like their savings, age and transferrable skills. > Most web designers will be fine. Many secretaries will not. The most vulnerable occupations are largely held by women.

[0]: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/measuring-us-workers-capa...

by kschaul

3/16/2026 at 3:54:43 PM

Any job where human-judgment is not required and there’s clear rules on the tasks required.

by abu_ameena

3/16/2026 at 4:42:44 PM

In practice, is AI incapable of performing human-judgement ... at the levels most humans do?

by jmathai

3/16/2026 at 6:20:09 PM

If we are talking about jobs (quantity) maybe to some extent. But if want to be honest, it’s qualitative (human-judgment) question. And even if a job seems totally AI-ready on paper, it might have invisible side effects.

(Thought experiment: do I want an AI robot to perform a surgery on me, if it only has 2% chance of hallucinating? My answer is no, bring the surgeon)

by abu_ameena

3/16/2026 at 6:30:26 PM

I wonder if we will see some perverse incentives emerge to make the AI seem even better. For example, say a well rested, stress free surgeon can have a 1% error rate. Well, lets make the job harder then, fatigue the surgeon, lay many of them off (or just not rehire as they leave) and spread the remainder thin. Make them hit 3% error rate. Then fire the lot because it would be malpractice not to.

by kjkjadksj

3/16/2026 at 6:55:37 PM

If that’s the dystopia we would live in, I’d imagine an alternate healthcare/legal system would emerge. Also, personally I’m far more forgiving of the human-error than that of the machine

by abu_ameena

3/16/2026 at 5:09:55 PM

even with human judgement, it will become way more efficient because LLM will prepare input and you press y/n. As results way less human judges will be required, so job market will shrink by factor N.

by andriy_koval

3/16/2026 at 6:04:14 PM

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by abu_ameena

3/16/2026 at 6:12:28 PM

so none :)

by GoToRO

3/16/2026 at 6:07:01 PM

Non original echo-chamber Journalists who serve the same meal since years and already lost huge amount of readership even before AI?

by cdud3

3/16/2026 at 7:39:27 PM

Nah, they are there because they have a following of readers.

by LtWorf

3/16/2026 at 7:18:34 PM

Just noticed the tagline of the paywalled page:

  Democracy Dies in Darkness

by karmakaze

3/16/2026 at 5:15:57 PM

Anything paid more than 50k a year

by kjkjadksj