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These weekly summaries were produced from 2026-03 to 2026-10 by a weekly AI-generated scoring that this site no longer uses. Their scores are not comparable with the current figures, which come from public datasets. Why the method changed

Weekly AI Job Risk 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 from AI came from classroom adoption of LLMs, expanding enterprise focus on agent orchestration and infrastructure, and reports of robots learning on the spot—developments that slightly raise pressure on coding, analysis, instructional, and repetitive knowledge-work roles. At the same time, backlash around deepfakes in schools, resistance to Palantir in UK health systems, and concerns over agent safety and watermark workarounds highlight why many AI-proof jobs still retain human oversight, trust, and accountability advantages. Relative to last week, most scores stay stable because the news mostly confirms existing trends rather than proving immediate end-to-end replacement. Overall, the latest pattern still supports familiar search themes like jobs AI will replace and AI job risk, while also reinforcing that regulated, physical, and relationship-heavy occupations remain harder to automate fully.

Week: August 26, 2026

46.47 Weekly Average Risk

26 Jobs moving up

0 Jobs moving down

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

46.47

Week-over-week change

+0.13

Jobs moving up

Jobs moving down

Jobs unchanged

178

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.

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	94	94	+0
2	Software Tester	92	91	+1
3	Call Center Agent	89	89	+0
4	Customer Support Representative	89	89	+0
5	Administrative Assistant	86	86	+0
6	Office Clerk	86	86	+0
7	Customer Support	85	85	+0
8	Copywriter	84	84	+0
9	QA Engineer	84	83	+1
10	Data Analyst	84	83	+1
11	Telemarketer	83	83	+0
12	Data Entry Clerk	82	82	+0
13	Content Writer	81	81	+0
14	Retail Cashier	80	80	+0
15	Receptionist	79	79	+0
16	Bookkeeper	78	78	+0
17	Software Engineer	78	77	+1
18	Social Media Manager	77	77	+0
19	Accounting Clerk	77	77	+0
20	Digital Marketer	77	77	+0
21	Court Reporter	77	77	+0
22	Mobile App Developer	77	76	+1
23	Truck Driver	77	77	+0
24	Programmer	76	75	+1
25	Paralegal	76	76	+0
26	Proofreader	76	76	+0
27	SEO Specialist	76	76	+0
28	Illustrator	75	75	+0
29	Translator	74	74	+0
30	Insurance Underwriter	74	74	+0

Exposure runs from 0 to 100 and compares occupations with each other, using public datasets (see sources). It is not a probability that the job disappears. Methodology

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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.

Kids outlearn AI—and we still don’t know why

MIT Technology Review / August 24, 2026

They Dedicated Their Lives to Teaching. Then the Deepfakes Started

Wired / August 24, 2026

How to encourage smarter AI use in the classroom

MIT Technology Review / August 24, 2026

The Single English County Saying No to Palantir

Wired / August 21, 2026

The Unlikely Place at the Center of China’s AI Boom

Wired / August 21, 2026

Unlocking hidden revenue streams with market models

MIT Technology Review / August 20, 2026

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

MIT Technology Review / August 20, 2026

Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI

Wired / August 20, 2026

Flock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its Code

Wired / August 19, 2026

VentureBeat names Rob Strechay as its first Lead Analyst, expanding its enterprise AI research push

VentureBeat / August 19, 2026

Coders Say They Already Found Workarounds to Claude’s Invisible Watermarks

Wired / August 19, 2026

I Saw the Future of AI in a Robot That Can Learn on the Spot

Wired / August 19, 2026

OpenAI Overhauls Safety Protocols After Its AI Agents Went Rogue

Wired / August 18, 2026

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