Anthropic is tracking which jobs are most exposed to AI. These 10 professions top the list. By Megan Cerullo Updated on: March 6, 2026 / 3:47 PM EST / CBS News
I only snipped short parts of this article, too long but still informative, makes many of the same points I do. Anyone bringing in new tech in would know these issues, and in the IT world, we all have been exposed to bringing in new tech, as part of our jobs, writing software never before written, etc. Also, if many IT people are like me, we have vast libraries of stored code already written that we can grab portions of, or all of, and reuse the code, this reduces the percentage of AI impact since we, the programmers do a lot of this impact already (grabbing already written code, reusing it, etc.).
Anthropic, the maker of the AI chatbot Claude, says it has built an early warning system to track which U.S. jobs are most exposed to artificial intelligence — and its initial findings suggest many white-collar roles sit near the front lines. Etc. ME: The evidence thus far, suggests limited evidence that employment has been impacted thus far.
Most exposed occupations, to determine a job's exposure, Anthropic compared AI's ability to perform specific tasks with how common those tasks are across professions. Jobs are made up of many tasks, with some of them easily replaced by AI, while others are difficult to replace. Take teaching, where an AI chatbot could grade homework but wouldn't be able to manage a classroom of children, the researchers noted.
Anthropic said a job's "exposure" is based on the percentage of its tasks that artificial intelligence could potentially speed up or help perform.
These are the 10 professions Anthropic identified as most exposed to AI:
Computer programmers: 75%, Customer service reps: 70%, Data entry keyers: 67%, Medical record specialists: 67%, Market research analysts and marketing specialists: 65%, Sales reps: 63%, Financial and investment analysts: 57%, Software quality assurance analysts: 52%, Information security analysts: 49%, Computer user support specialists: 47%
The least exposed occupations tend to require physical abilities. Jobs such as groundskeepers, cooks, motorcycle mechanics, lifeguards and bartenders ranked among those with the lowest exposure. IN SHORT, THOSE JOBS NEEDED HANDS-ON HUMAN HANDLING.
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