AI exposure

Air traffic controller: will AI take this job?

20%Mostly safe
AI can plan routes. Nobody wants “sorry, I hallucinated a runway”.

Why

Tools help, but safety rules and responsibility keep humans in control for the foreseeable future.

Where to look next

  1. Stay
  2. Drone traffic management
  3. Training and simulation

What AI already does

  • Conflict prediction
  • Sequencing suggestions

What stays human

  • Decisions in real time
  • Emergencies

Skills worth learning — Transport & logistics

  • Logistics software and planning
  • Specialist licences (ADR, heavy loads)
  • Supervising automated fleets

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For fun, not a forecast. Scores are our rough estimates of how much of a job’s tasks AI can already help with, based on the ILO (2025) and Microsoft Research (2025) studies. Exposure usually means the job changes, not that it disappears — the ILO puts about 1 in 4 jobs worldwide in exposed occupations, but only 3.3% in the highest category.