These Are the Jobs Most Likely To Be Eliminated by Generative A.I.

And in an ironic twist, they won’t stop talking about it

Joe Procopio
6 min readJun 12, 2023

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The fear-mongering around Generative AI and ChatGPT taking jobs from hard-working, knowledge-economy humans has reached a fever pitch.

Without naming names and linking links (I’d rather keep you here, more on that later), a simple web search returns hundreds of articles, listicles, and correlation thought pieces, all written to harvest the click of the average bread-winner by instilling a panic image of the machines rising up and doing for free what you get paid for.

I’ve been working with Natural Language Generation (NLG) and the roots of Generative A.I. since 2010, which, on the technology timeline, is the Mesozoic Era.

And I’ve got some good news for you.

The job that Generative A.I. is going to take is probably not yours. And you might get an ironic chuckle when I tell you which jobs are immediately in danger of being erased.

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Joe Procopio
Joe Procopio

Written by Joe Procopio

I'm a multi-exit, multi-failure entrepreneur. AI pioneer. Technologist. Innovator. I write at Inc.com and BuiltIn.com. More about me at joeprocopio.com

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