Weekly AI Job Risk Summary

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 software-heavy roles often featured in searches for jobs AI will replace and jobs at risk from AI. GPT-6 Astra’s reported strength in computer use and coding, Nvidia’s launch of early AI PCs, and Nvidia’s Hugging Face acquisition all support wider access to stronger automation tools for programming, testing, design, analytics, and content workflows. Customer-facing automation also advanced through voice-note feedback systems and infrastructure aimed at resolving complex customer needs at scale, raising AI job risk for support and call-center work. At the same time, outages across major model providers and underwhelming real-world use of Siri AI are reminders that reliability and adoption still limit full substitution. More physical, licensed, and trust-heavy occupations remain among the more AI-proof jobs this week.

Week: September 9, 2026
46.69 Weekly Average Risk
29 Jobs moving up
0 Jobs moving down

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 Programmer, Software Tester, Call Center Agent. Moves like these often show where AI is taking on more repeatable drafting, comparison, coordination, or first-pass analytical work.

DevOps Engineer, Archivist, Water Treatment Operator 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

46.69

Week-over-week change

+0.15

Jobs moving up

29

Jobs moving down

0

Jobs unchanged

175

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.

  • No notable movers this 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.

Architecting memory and storage in the AI era

MIT Technology Review / 2026-09-04

Facilitating AI integration with simplicity at scale

MIT Technology Review / 2026-09-02

Past Weeks

Scores run from 0 to 100 and compare occupations with each other. A score is not a probability that the job disappears. Methodology

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