Weekly AI Job Risk Summary

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, and enterprise agent adoption—key themes in current debates about jobs AI will replace and jobs at risk from AI. Reports on AI transcription tools, Amazon’s AI-animated TV production, and growing organizational plans for agentic AI support slightly higher AI job risk for roles like transcription-adjacent reporting, animation, copy-heavy marketing, and some software and admin workflows. Autonomous driving news around Waymo’s new robotaxi also nudges passenger-driving roles upward at the margin. Offsetting that, stronger AI safety oversight in Illinois, visible public resistance to AI hype, and repeated evidence that current agents still miss human context keep many people-facing and judgment-heavy occupations relatively stable. In short, this week reinforces a familiar pattern: routine digital tasks face rising automation pressure, while AI-proof jobs remain concentrated in hands-on, licensed, interpersonal, and high-accountability work.

Week: June 3, 2026
45.17 Weekly Average Risk
30 Jobs moving up
3 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 Court Reporter, Animator, Scheduler. 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 Network Engineer, AI Engineer, Machine Learning 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.

Economist, Urban Farmer, Investment Banker 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

45.17

Week-over-week change

+0.15

Jobs moving up

30

Jobs moving down

3

Jobs unchanged

171

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.

This Week Ranking

Use the full ranking as a current snapshot of relative pressure across jobs. The score alone matters less than the combination of score, week-over-week change, and the task mix behind the role.

Rank Job Risk Score Last Week Change
1 Scheduler 88 87 +1
2 Call Center Agent 86 86 +0
3 Customer Support Representative 83 83 +0
4 Data Entry Clerk 81 81 +0
5 Telemarketer 81 81 +0
6 Software Tester 80 79 +1
7 Copywriter 80 79 +1
8 Customer Support 79 79 +0
9 Office Clerk 79 79 +0
10 Retail Cashier 78 78 +0
11 Administrative Assistant 78 77 +1
12 Bookkeeper 77 77 +0
13 Content Writer 77 76 +1
14 Court Reporter 77 75 +2
15 Truck Driver 77 77 +0
16 Accounting Clerk 76 76 +0
17 Data Analyst 76 76 +0
18 Proofreader 75 75 +0
19 Receptionist 74 74 +0
20 Translator 73 73 +0
21 Paralegal 73 73 +0
22 Social Media Manager 73 72 +1
23 SEO Specialist 73 72 +1
24 Digital Marketer 73 72 +1
25 Illustrator 73 72 +1
26 Civil Drafter 73 73 +0
27 Delivery Driver 73 73 +0
28 QA Engineer 72 71 +1
29 Insurance Underwriter 72 72 +0
30 Taxi Driver 72 71 +1

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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.

The AI Hype Index: AI gets booed in graduation season

MIT Technology Review / 2026-05-28

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