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Sailor / ship crew: will AI take this job?

25%Mostly safe
Autonomous ships are coming. The sea hasn’t read the memo.

Why

Ship engineers are among the least exposed jobs in Microsoft’s 2025 study.

Where to look next

  1. Ship engineer / officer
  2. Offshore wind
  3. Remote ship operations

What AI already does

  • Navigation
  • Route optimisation

What stays human

  • Engine-room repairs
  • Emergencies at sea

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.