Weekly AI Job Risk Summary
This week’s AI job risk update was driven less by headline hype and more by evidence of practical agent deployment, security trade-offs, and telecom automation. The clearest signal for jobs AI will replace first came from Google’s Gemini call feature, Rabbit’s new agent app, and reports of AI agents handling bookings, screening scams, and other routine coordination work. That modestly raises risk for call-heavy, scheduling, admin, and support roles already exposed to workflow automation. AT&T’s automation push is another concrete labor-market signal for jobs at risk from AI in operations and customer service. At the same time, repeated security failures, hacking incidents, and concerns about agent cheating slightly reduce near-term replacement odds for some high-trust roles, because organizations may slow full autonomy where oversight, accountability, or safety matter. Overall, the weekly ranking still suggests that repetitive digital workflow jobs face the highest AI job risk, while licensed, hands-on, and relationship-centric occupations remain among the more AI-proof jobs.
This Week in Context
These paragraphs turn the weekly table into a readable explanation of where automation pressure broadened, narrowed, or stayed steady.
The weekly average risk moved upward, which suggests pressure broadened rather than staying isolated to only a few roles.
The clearest upward pressure appeared in Scheduler, Customer Support Representative, Call Center Agent. Moves like these often show where AI is taking on more repeatable drafting, comparison, coordination, or first-pass analytical work.
Relative pressure eased most in System Administrator, Supply Chain Manager, Network Engineer. That does not make these roles permanently safe, but it does suggest this week's signals were less aggressive than in the roles moving upward.
Sustainability Consultant, Archivist, Lawyer changed little and help anchor the baseline for this week. Stable roles matter because they show where the ranking is holding its shape even while other parts of the market move.
Read these paragraphs together with the linked news and the full ranking. The point is not a one-week prediction of replacement, but a clearer view of where automation pressure is concentrating first.
How to Read This Week
This report works best when you read the summary, score movement, and linked news together. Treat it as a weekly reading of changing automation pressure, not as a one-week prediction that a profession will immediately disappear.
Weekly Average Risk
47.05
Week-over-week change
+0.05
Jobs moving up
15
Jobs moving down
5
Jobs unchanged
184
Trend
The chart shows how the overall weekly average has moved. It helps separate a broad market shift from changes limited to a smaller set of jobs.
Where Pressure Rose First
These jobs posted the strongest upward moves this week. Read them as signs of where automation pressure is tightening fastest right now.
Where Pressure Eased
These jobs moved downward this week. A lower score does not mean the role is safe forever, but it does suggest less immediate pressure relative to the prior week.
Roles That Stayed Relatively Steady
These jobs changed little this week and help anchor the broader picture. Stability often matters as much as movement when judging whether a shift is broad or narrow.
AI News Used In This Weekly Evaluation
The articles below are the main signals used in this week's evaluation. Read them as context for why pressure rose, fell, or stayed stable.
Wired / September 26, 2026
MIT Technology Review / September 25, 2026
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MIT Technology Review / September 23, 2026
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MIT Technology Review / September 22, 2026
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MIT Technology Review / September 22, 2026
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Past Weeks
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Weekly summary September 23, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative changes across occupations. The biggest signals came from cybersecurity, education content, software, and surveillance-related workflows rather th...
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Weekly summary September 16, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is modest overall: most scores stay stable because the news was more about governance, misuse, and agentic AI capability signals than broad enterprise replacement at scale. The clearest lab...
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Weekly summary September 9, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is modest overall, with most scores staying stable because the news points more to gradual deployment than instant replacement. The clearest pressure remains on digital, clerical, and softw...
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Weekly summary September 2, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update stays mostly stable, with only small relative changes across occupations. The biggest themes in AI news were stronger evidence that autonomous agents can now perform longer workflows, plus...
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Weekly summary August 26, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is shaped less by breakthrough consumer automation and more by deployment evidence in education, enterprise infrastructure, policing, and robotics. The strongest signals for jobs at risk fr...
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Weekly summary August 19, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative shifts across the labor market. The clearest new signals came from agentic AI, AI newsroom progress, and expanding enterprise training on user-gen...
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Weekly summary August 12, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across jobs at risk from AI. The biggest themes were not pure capability gains, but mixed signals on adoption: the AI slop backlash and new...
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Weekly summary August 5, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update shows only modest relative shifts, but the direction of travel remains clear for several categories often discussed in searches like jobs AI will replace, jobs at risk from AI, AI job risk,...
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Weekly summary July 29, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update shows only modest movement, with relative rankings largely stable. The biggest theme in AI news was the continued shift from chatbots to agentic AI: enterprise systems are being designed to...
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Weekly summary July 22, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across the list. The biggest theme in jobs at risk from AI is not raw model capability alone, but uneven real-world deployment: new enterpri...
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Weekly summary July 15, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across the list. The biggest signals came from stronger evidence that AI is spreading into white-collar workflow automation, coding, legal r...
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Weekly summary July 8, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is modest overall, with most scores holding steady because the news points more to deeper enterprise deployment than to sudden labor replacement. The clearest signal comes from Anthropic’s...
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Weekly summary July 1, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update shows mostly small, relative moves rather than broad re-ranking. The biggest theme in jobs at risk from AI is stronger enterprise interest in AI agents and workflow automation, especially f...
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Weekly summary June 24, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is driven less by broad consumer hype and more by deployment signals around coding, support, and digital knowledge work. OpenAI’s GPT-5.5-Cyber launch and its "Patch the Plant" effort stren...
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Weekly summary June 17, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is modest overall, with only small relative shifts across the list. The biggest labor-market signal is continued progress in autonomous AI agents and AI coding: OpenAI is reportedly leading...
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Weekly summary June 10, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is broadly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations. The clearest signal for jobs at risk from AI came from Microsoft Scout, positioned as an AI coworker inside Teams that...
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Weekly summary June 3, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is modest overall, with only small relative moves across the list. The clearest pressure increase is on digital content and routine knowledge work tied to transcription, AI-generated media,...
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Weekly summary May 27, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update was shaped by stronger signals in coding automation, AI search, and early robotics deployment. The biggest pressure remains on digital knowledge work tied to repetitive text, support, and s...
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Weekly summary May 20, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations. The clearest signals came from product and workflow news: OpenAI’s reorganization to unify ChatGPT and Codex, plus conti...
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Weekly summary May 13, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is broadly stable, with only modest relative moves across occupations. The strongest signals came from finance AI adoption, growing use of generative AI in coding and app creation, and cont...
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Weekly summary May 6, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative changes across occupations. The biggest signals came from stronger enterprise AI adoption, faster hardware demand, new model-debugging tools, and...
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Weekly summary April 29, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations. The clearest signal for jobs at risk from AI came from stronger general-purpose models and wider enterprise deployment:...
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Weekly summary April 22, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations. The clearest signals in jobs at risk from AI came from enterprise deployment news: Chinese tech workers reportedly being...
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Weekly summary April 15, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations. The biggest signals came from continued progress in AI agents, including Microsoft’s new OpenClaw-like work on task-comp...
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Weekly summary April 8, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations. The clearest signal is broader deployment of AI assistants through new ChatGPT app integrations with tools like Canva, F...
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Weekly summary April 1, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative adjustments as the latest AI news was mixed. The biggest signal raising exposure for some knowledge-work roles is stronger mainstream adoption of...
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Weekly summary March 25, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across professions. The strongest signals came from better AI infrastructure and workflow automation: Gimlet Labs’ multi-chip inference push...
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Weekly summary March 18, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update is mostly stable, with only small relative moves across occupations as recent developments point more to deeper enterprise adoption than to sudden labor replacement. The clearest signal for...
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Weekly summary March 14, 2026
This week’s AI job risk update reflects faster rollout of AI agents in sales, customer messaging, and enterprise workflows—areas often cited in “jobs AI will replace” and “jobs at risk from AI” discussions. Rox AI’s $1.2...
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Weekly summary March 5, 2026
This week’s AI job risk signals strengthened for several customer-facing and routine digital roles—often cited in “jobs AI will replace” and “jobs at risk from AI” lists—while some hands-on and regulated roles look sligh...
Scores run from 0 to 100 and compare occupations with each other. A score is not a probability that the job disappears. Methodology