AI exposure

IT admin / DevOps: will AI take this job?

50%Changing fast
The server is down. The AI says “have you tried turning it off and on again?” Classic.

Why

Scripts and configs are AI-friendly; production incidents at 3 a.m. still need someone who understands the whole system.

Where to look next

  1. Cloud / platform engineer
  2. Security engineer
  3. Site reliability engineer

What AI already does

  • Writing scripts and configs
  • Monitoring alerts

What stays human

  • Incident response
  • Architecture decisions

Skills worth learning — Tech & data

  • Building with AI models and agents
  • Security
  • System design and product sense

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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.