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Topics: News, US News, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
Gerrard Kaonga
Topics: News, US News, Artificial Intelligence, Technology
An expert has crunched data from 180 million job postings to find out which careers are really under threat from AI. It makes for grim reading, especially for people in three specific industries.
As artificial intelligence technology improves, more and more people are growing fearful that their job or industry could be under threat.
This fear may very well be justified as AI appears to be improving rapidly and people have gone from mocking its attempts to show Will Smith eating some spaghetti to struggling to tell what videos are and aren’t real on the internet.
While some people remain level-headed that their job is safe, some experts have warned the number of jobs that will be completely unimpacted by AI will be slim.
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With that said, the CTO of Revealera and Bloomberry, Henley Wing Chiu, has revealed he recently conducted a study to look at what industries and jobs are already being hit.
Chiu, who researches B2B enterprise tech, AI and labor markets, said he had conducted a study to analyze nearly ‘180 million global job postings from January 2023 to October 2025’.
He added: “I simply wanted to know which specific job titles declined or grew the most in 2025, compared to 2024. Because those were likely to be ones that AI is impacting the most."
He did admit that there could be some flaws in his methodology, as not all job postings result in a hire and some are ‘ghost jobs’ but he ultimately concluded that as he was ‘comparing the relative growth in job titles, this didn’t seem like a big issue’.
He admitted that despite many fears, based on the data from his study, AI isn’t causing massive spikes in unemployment, but some roles are being hit harder than others.
Chiu claimed that the three careers being struck hardest were computer graphics artists (32.7 percent fewer job postings in 2025 than the previous year), writers (27.9 percent fewer) and photographers (28.1 percent fewer).
Other jobs that saw greater than average decline were compliance specialists (29.2 percent), sustainability specialists (27.6 percent), journalists (21.8 percent) and videographers (14.1 percent).
He stated: “Most jobs in our analysis did not drastically plummet. But it’s insincere to say AI is having zero impact either. It’s hitting some creative work hard.
“Two years is not a lot of data, mind you, but I think the trend so far isn’t very encouraging.”
On the flipside, using the data from his study, Chiu found that some roles are remaining ‘resilient’ for a key reason.
He noted that roles that require ‘empathy, strategy, or complex problem-solving such as software engineering, creative directors, and customer service’ are not as brutally impacted by AI advancements.
In fact, some jobs saw an increase in postings, such as pharmacists (13.5 percent), mortgage loan officers (14.4 percent), legal directors (20.6 percent) and - perhaps unsurprisingly - machine learning engineers (39.6 percent).
He did note that AI’s impact is selective, but some industries may simply evolve and change rather than see complete roles erased.