AI and work: how jobs, skills and companies are changing

Understanding the topic

Tasks, not jobs

Hardly any job consists of a single activity. Generative AI can already write drafts, summarise documents, translate, produce code, analyse data and answer recurring questions. Within each profession, then, some tasks are automated and others gain value: judgement, relationships with people, responsibility for a decision. That is why researchers speak more often of jobs that change than of jobs that vanish overnight.

Who is most exposed

Earlier waves of automation mostly affected repetitive manual work. This one also reaches office and knowledge work: administration, customer service, translation, programming, graphic design, marketing, legal professions. Estimates of how many jobs will be lost or created differ widely from one study to the next, and overly neat numbers deserve suspicion. Real data is more useful: job ads, layoffs attributed to AI, union agreements, measured productivity.

The skills that matter

Not everyone needs to become a programmer. What matters is using the tools well in your own field: asking the right question, checking the result, knowing where AI gets things wrong and which data must not be shared. Alongside this, jobs in AI itself are growing. Every day FAIND publishes the ranking of the most in-demand roles in job ads, with links to apply.

What we follow

• layoffs, hiring and reorganisations linked to AI
• studies on productivity, wages and employment
• training, skills and new professions
• rules: AI in recruitment, monitoring of workers, union agreements

Latest news on AI and work

• Is a job guarantee the solution to mass AI unemployment?The Guardian AI · 23 Oct
• The Indian workers filming their work to train AIBBC Technology · 23 Oct
• Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playingTechCrunch AI · 23 Oct
• Eiliko maker says it’s hiring an ‘independent security firm’ after Verge report on its insecure robotsThe Verge AI · 22 Oct
• OpenAI agents analyze mouse brain data in 32 minutes, a job that would take humans monthsThe Decoder · 22 Oct
• Barclays to cut 5,000 jobs as bank’s bosses hail AI productivity advancesThe Guardian AI · 22 Oct
• Migliaia di licenziati anche se c'è crescita, ma non è colpa dell'AITom's Hardware Italia · 24 Oct · in Italian
• Tlc, l'occupazione crolla al minimo storico: Asstel e sindacati chiedono una svoltaHardware Upgrade · 24 Oct · in Italian
• Micron gibt Ausblick: Spezial-NAND für extrem viele IOPS und hohen DurchsatzComputerBase · 23 Oct · in German
• 'Intelligenza Artificiale ci ruberà il lavoro? La risposta di Shigeru MiyamotoTom's Hardware Italia · 23 Oct · in Italian

Videos

Il segreto di Stanford per aumentare di 10X la tua produttività con ClaudeGiovanni Beggiato · 24 Oct Uber rolls out ChatGPT Work to 30,000+ employeesOpenAI · 22 Oct È appena uscito Claude Duet: TUTTO quello che deviGiovanni Beggiato · 22 Oct

Timeline

The most widely covered story of each day, newest first. The list grows over time; each headline links to the original article.

• 24 Oct Migliaia di licenziati anche se c'è crescita, ma non è colpa dell'AI (Tom's Hardware Italia)
• 23 Oct Micron gibt Ausblick: Spezial-NAND für extrem viele IOPS und hohen Durchsatz (ComputerBase)
• 22 Oct 1Password for Agents: l'agente AI entra negli account senza vedere la password (Hardware Upgrade, 2 outlets)
• 21 Oct Qualcomm, ricavi in calo e svolta verso i datacenter: in arrivo una riduzione dell'organico (Hardware Upgrade)
• 20 Oct Stiamo cominciando a perdere troppo tempo per correggere documenti fatti con l'AI (Tom's Hardware Italia)
• 19 Oct Ex-OpenAI worker accused of planting bug had Saudi support, claims prosecutors (BBC Technology)
• 18 Oct A woman was arrested in Philly for blocking a delivery robot (The Verge AI)
• 17 Oct Anthropic says its workforce has become less junior and is spending more time in meetings (TechCrunch AI)
• 16 Oct How Itaú is building generative AI for its entire customer base (OpenAI News)
• 15 Oct Anthropic is letting METR researchers look under the hood with employee-level access (TechCrunch AI)
• 14 Oct OpenAI accuses employee who left for Apple of leaking plans for unreleased device (The Guardian AI)
• 13 Oct OpenAI employee arrested for allegedly planting a bug in a conference room (The Verge AI)
• 12 Oct Richiami e no-show nello studio dentistico: come ridurre le assenze con l'AI (Tom's Hardware Italia)
• 11 Oct KI-Texte erkennen: Diese Phrasen verraten ChatGPT & Claude (t3n)
• 10 Oct OpenAI risponde alle accuse dei tre dipendenti licenziati (Punto Informatico)
• 9 Oct Nach Entlassung bei OpenAI: Ex-Mitarbeiter veröffentlichen kritischen Brief (Heise KI, 2 outlets)
• 8 Oct From the farm to your door: How our global food system exploits workers (Grist)
• 7 Oct The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind (The Guardian AI)
• 6 Oct Microsoft publishes Nobel economist's bearish AI forecast of just 1.5% GDP growth over a decade (The Decoder)
• 5 Oct Meta and Microsoft pull back from Claude as Anthropic transforms from partner into competitor (The Decoder)
• 4 Oct Autonomes Fahren: VW arbeitet mit Wayve statt mit Nvidia (Heise KI)
• 3 Oct OpenAI-Sicherheitsmitarbeiter kündigt und warnt vor Risiken (Spiegel Netzwelt)
• 2 Oct Affected by layoffs? Don’t miss this $75 deal for your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Expo+ Pass (TechCrunch AI)
• 1 Oct LiveRamp erweitert ChatGPT-Partnerschaft: Was passiert mit Daten? (Heise KI)
• 30 Sept AI voice startup ElevenLabs doubles valuation to $22B (TechCrunch AI)
• 29 Sept AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’ (The Verge AI)
• 24 Sept Trump cut their climate jobs. This secretive network found them new ones. (Grist)

Frequently asked questions

Will artificial intelligence take our jobs?

It automates individual tasks more than whole jobs. Some activities, especially repetitive office work, are increasingly done by software; others are created or become more important. The effect depends on the sector and on how quickly companies adopt these tools.

Which jobs are most at risk from AI?

Those dominated by repetitive tasks based on text and data: data entry, first-level customer service, standard translation, part of administrative work and basic programming. Jobs that require physical presence, fine manual skill, relationships and direct responsibility are less exposed.

What are the most in-demand jobs in artificial intelligence?

Machine learning engineer, AI engineer, data scientist, data engineer and data analyst are among the roles that appear most often in job ads. Every six hours FAIND updates a ranking based on public listings from the last 30 days.

What skills do you need to work with AI?

For most people: writing clear requests, checking the answers, knowing the limits of the tools and protecting confidential data. For technical roles: programming, statistics, data management and knowledge of machine learning models.

Can a company use AI to select or assess employees?

In the European Union, AI systems used to hire, assess or manage workers are classed as high-risk by the regulation on artificial intelligence and are subject to specific transparency and human-oversight obligations, in addition to existing privacy and labour law.

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