AI could create 500,000-2 million novel jobs, from robot trainers to AI perfumers
asusarla · x · 2026-10-17
Annie Lowrey argues AI's job impact is unpredictable: roles vanish but novel ones already exist — robot trainers, deepfake investigators, AI-risk underwriters, AI-powered perfumers. Using the combustion engine analogy, she notes no one foresaw flight attendants from furnaces. A new report by Ramírez et al. forecasts 500,000-2 million such new AI-era positions.
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