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\n AI probably won\u2019t take your job anytime soon. At least not all of it.\n <\/p>\n
\n Concerns about artificial intelligence replacing human workers have simmered over the past year as companies slash headcounts, AI models grow more capable of office work and businesses integrate AI more deeply into their operations. AI was the top reason companies cited for job cuts in April for the second month in a row, the executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas said Thursday<\/a>.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cThe anxiety around AI at work is real\u2014from fears of job loss to the pressure to keep up with rapidly evolving technology,\u201d Microsoft wrote<\/a> in a report about how AI is changing jobs released last week.\n <\/p>\n \n But the reality of AI in the workplace isn\u2019t so black-and-white, experts say. Companies are using AI to automate certain parts of jobs rather than replace entire positions.\n <\/p>\n \n Business leaders are figuring out what AI can and can\u2019t do, recalibrating existing jobs around responsibilities that can only be done by a human. And thousands of jobs have been cut in the process, with web infrastructure company Cloudflare<\/a> and cryptocurrency firm Coinbase among the latest to announce staff cuts.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt\u2019s very few jobs that are actually entirely automated away by the current AI and robotics technology that\u2019s out there,\u201d said Alexis Krivkovich, a senior partner at McKinsey & Company who helps lead the company\u2019s People and Organizational Performance Practice.\n <\/p>\n \n AI is technically capable of automating 57% of work-related activities, Krivkovich said, citing McKinsey research. But that percentage is spread across \u201cpieces and parts\u201d of various jobs and responsibilities across an organization.\n <\/p>\n \n Nitin Seth, the cofounder of digital services and consulting firm Incedo, claims his company helps clients boost productivity using AI by at least 20% to 25% without reducing staff at the same scale. That\u2019s because AI only handles certain parts of different roles.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cYou can\u2019t take one quarter of Lisa, one quarter of Jessica, one quarter of Nitin and one quarter of somebody else and make it one person,\u201d Seth said.\n <\/p>\n \n The fear that AI will take jobs has disrupted the tech industry the most. Software engineers have increasingly embraced the tech to help write code, with 90% of tech workers using AI in their jobs, according to a September survey<\/a> from Google\u2019s research arm. Stack Overflow, a popular question-and-answer forum for developers, found that<\/a> 84% of respondents either use AI tools in the software development process or plan to.\n <\/p>\n \n But a software engineer\u2019s job involves much more than just coding: It entails reviewing the code, designing systems, troubleshooting problems and deciding what to build. Companies may adjust job titles to reflect that, says Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cI think by the end of the year, we\u2019re going to start to see the idea of software engineering go away,\u201d he told CNN in March. He thinks the term \u201cbuilder\u201d might be a more fitting title as the job expands, and writing lines of code becomes a smaller part of it.\n <\/p>\n \n Sujata Sridharan, who most recently worked at the fintech firm Bolt and has spent roughly a decade as a software engineer, is one of the many engineers living through that transition.\n <\/p>\n \n Although she uses AI, her work still requires problem solving and critical thinking, she told CNN over email. The difference is that the execution now involves a mix of writing code and prompting AI.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cWith AI being used more and more, the skills that are actually required on the job have shifted to, are you able to recognize what is the right code quality? Are you able to problem solve?\u201d she said.\n <\/p>\n \n That\u2019s not to say AI isn\u2019t contributing to job losses; it just likely isn\u2019t taking over full roles. AI has been cited in more than 49,000 job cuts so far this year, the report from Challenger, Gray & Christmas said.\n <\/p>\n \n Block, the financial tech company behind Square and Cash App, laid off 40% of its staff<\/a> this year because AI has allowed it to do more with smaller teams. Coinbase is reducing its staff by about 14%<\/a> in part because AI is enabling engineers to \u201cship in days what used to take a team weeks,\u201d its CEO said Tuesday.\n <\/p>\n \n And Cloudflare said the way the company operates has completely changed, adding that its AI use has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone.\n <\/p>\n \n It\u2019s possible there will be \u201csome job disruption on the horizon,\u201d according to Dan Priest, PwC\u2019s US chief AI officer. Still, he said he isn\u2019t seeing mass layoffs at most companies and whole categories of jobs aren\u2019t currently at risk.\n <\/p>\n \n Most companies haven\u2019t yet adjusted its employee metrics and incentives to fit with how AI is changing work, Microsoft said in its report, which surveyed 20,000 workers using AI across 10 countries.\n <\/p>\n \n Instead, many are simply grappling with which skills are needed from human workers.\n <\/p>\n \n And the tech landscape may keep changing as AI models evolve and potentially take on more office tasks. For example, Anthropic on Tuesday announced new AI agents built for financial work, like building pitchbooks and crafting credit memos.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cIt starts at the bottom, and it keeps going up,\u201d said Umesh Ramakrishnan, cofounder and chief strategy officer at executive search firm Kingsley Gate. \u201cAnd I don\u2019t know where it stops.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York\u00a0\u2014\u00a0 AI probably won\u2019t take your job anytime soon. At least not all of it. 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