AI exposure

Scientist: will AI take this job?

30%Mostly safe
AI can read 10,000 papers. It still needs someone to run the experiment that fails 40 times.

Why

Literature review and analysis are accelerated. Asking new questions and lab work stay human.

Where to look next

  1. AI-for-science researcher
  2. Science communicator
  3. R&D in industry

What AI already does

  • Literature review
  • Data analysis
  • Drafting papers

What stays human

  • New questions
  • Lab work
  • Peer judgement

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.