AI exposure

Librarian: will AI take this job?

45%Changing fast
The AI has read every book. It still can’t shush a teenager properly.

Why

Cataloguing and search are automated, but libraries are becoming community, learning and digital-help centres.

Where to look next

  1. Digital skills trainer for the community
  2. Archivist / digitisation specialist
  3. Information specialist (research, fact-checking)

What AI already does

  • Cataloguing
  • Finding information

What stays human

  • Community events
  • Helping people learn

Skills worth learning — Education & science

  • Teaching with AI
  • Mentoring and motivation
  • Research methods and critical thinking

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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.