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Will AI take your job?
Will AI take a Journalist's job?
The boring 60% is on the chopping block.
The role of a journalist won't vanish overnight, but AI will quietly eat the repetitive half; the people who survive are the ones holding the AI's leash.
Doomsday year (estimate)
2029
AI tools already doing parts of it
Perplexity · AirOps · Otter
How a journalist stays ahead of AI
Safer pivot: Investigative / analysis reporter.
Step one: Do what AI can't: original reporting, sources, being physically there.
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How we score it
The 82% figure is real AI task-exposure for a journalist from the AI Work Index (blending AIOE, the Anthropic Economic Index, Eloundou et al. and the ILO). High exposure means AI can do many of the tasks — it isn't a prediction that the job disappears, and it isn't career advice. How we score →