{"id":255564,"date":"2026-05-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/a-reality-check-on-the-ai-jobs-hysteria\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T09:20:09","slug":"a-reality-check-on-the-ai-jobs-hysteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/a-reality-check-on-the-ai-jobs-hysteria\/","title":{"rendered":"A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reality check on the AI jobs hysteria<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/05\/26\/1137855\/a-reality-check-on-the-ai-jobs-hysteria\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-26 05:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.technologyreview.com<\/a><\/p>\n

But a closer look at the data shows that students are not necessarily turning away from AI-related careers. Rather, they appear to be tailoring their skills to the changes they see underway as AI becomes increasingly important for various disciplines. Interest is rising in AI-adjacent fields like data science and cybersecurity. One fast-growing major: artificial intelligence itself (a recent addition to many college offerings).<\/p>\n

Is this time different?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Anxiety over the potential of AI to replace workers is nothing new. I wrote \u201cHow Technology Is Destroying Jobs\u201d in 2013, describing how a slew of new digital technologies, including AI, were beginning to threaten white-collar work. I wasn\u2019t alone. It was a popular theme at a time when the labor market was sluggish and jobs were scarce.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In one of his last days in office in late 2016, President Obama issued a report written by his top economic and science advisors warning that AI was threatening workers. Among the findings was that automated vehicles\u2014especially driverless trucks\u2014could eliminate 2.2 million to 3.1 million existing US jobs.\u00a0 Around the same time, one of the pioneers of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, said that \u201cpeople should stop training radiologists\u201d because it was \u201ccompletely obvious\u201d the occupation was soon to be replaced by AI.<\/p>\n

None of these predictions came true, of course (nor did so-called technological unemployment occur during several earlier tech-related job panics). The forecasts were often wrong about the pace of the technological advances\u2014we\u2019re still waiting for fleets of driverless trucks on the highways\u2014and failed to understand the complex portfolio of tasks that make up many jobs. AI has indeed become a tool for screening radiology images, but there are more radiologists than ever. It turns out that human radiologists perform a multitude of valuable tasks, including interpreting results and interacting with patients, that can\u2019t be accomplished with AI (yet).<\/p>\n

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