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A.I. Might Take Your Job. Here Are 22 New Ones It Could Give You.

... Even if the A.I.-written version of this piece was entirely factual, submitting it to my editors would have represented a fundamental misunderstanding of why they hired me. In freelance journalism, as in many fields where the work product is written text, you aren’t just being paid for the words you submit. You’re being paid to be responsible for them: the facts, the concepts, the fairness, the phrasing. ...

It’s not just a question of where humans want A.I., but also: Where does A.I. want humans? To my mind, there are three major areas where humans either are, or will soon be, more necessary than ever: trust, integration and taste. ...

Trust

A.I. auditors — people who dig down into the A.I. to understand what it is doing and why and can then document it for technical, explanatory or liability purposes. ...

A.I. translator: someone who understands A.I. well enough to explain its mechanics to others in the business, particularly to leaders and managers. ...

... a whole new breed of fact checkers and compliance officers ...trust authenticatoror trust director. ... A.I. ethicist. It will be these ethicists’ jobs to build chains of defensible logic that can be used to support decisions made by A.I. (or by hybrid A.I.-and-human teams) to a wide variety of interested parties...

At its core, trust is about accountability ... “There should be a human who ultimately takes responsibility,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, director of the digital economy lab at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and also a founder of the A.I. consulting company Workhelix. ...

 legal guarantor: someone who provides the culpability that the A.I. cannot. ...

 consistency coordinator. ... when A.I. isn’t consistent, it can’t be trusted. ...

 escalation officer. ... But our preferences will almost certainly also require someone to step in when the A.I. just feels … inhuman. ...

Integration

A.I. integrators: experts who figure out how to best use A.I. in a company, then implement it. ...

...  people who fix the A.I. when it breaks, which will look a little different than traditional I.T. specialists ... A.I. Plumber ...

Deciding which tools to use, and when, is a complex problem. ... A.I. assessor ...

Integration jobs are already on the rise, ... In the future, they might carry more specific titles, like integration specialist. ...

A.I. trainer: the person whose job it is to help the A.I. find and digest the best, most useful data a company has and then teach it to respond in accurate and helpful ways. ...

A.I. personality director ... an organization’s A.I. personality could become as core to its brand as its logo. ...

Healthcare... drug-compliance optimizer — a person who develops A.I.-driven systems to make sure patients take the right medications at the correct time. ...  A.I./human evaluation specialist: someone who determines where A.I. performs best, where humans are either better or simply needed and where a hybrid team might be optimal. ...

Taste

... music producer Rick Rubin ... “The confidence I have in my taste, and my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artists.” ...

In that future, provided my editor and I can trust the A.I., the job of writing this article may very well come down to selecting the inputs, then picking and choosing phrases, paragraphs and lines of reasoning offered by Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and others. I will still be the “author” of the article, but perhaps not the writer. ...

Rather than go away, in the future, the term “designer” might actually grow to cover a whole range of jobs in which a person’s main function is to steer A.I. to create something compelling — a product, a service, a process — based largely on their taste. ...

product designers will have a much greater ability to own products, from top to bottom... not be a writer but an article designer. Story designer might become a more popular title in film and TV. We could see a lot more world designers in everything from marketing — where a person fabricates an entire universe, complete with fictional characters and locations, which then feeds all the images and videos of a campaign — to video games. ...

human resources designer who can more thoroughly control everything from training materials to detailed benefits-and-leave policies, giving them a more pronounced ability to personally shape the entire culture of an organization. We might see civil designers, who are more focused on the creative part of the job than the math and physics, favored over civil engineers. ...

This means that rather than have rookie employees compile reports or write memos — things the A.I. is good at — you might have them start, say, creating new ideas for products right away. ...

differentiation designer, whose remit combines branding, philosophy, product, risk tolerance and creative execution. ...

 “I will have it do research in advance, but I will never let it write before I write,” Mollick said of A.I. “I have to write messily to think something through. Otherwise, the A.I. will dominate my thoughts.” ...

Brynjolfsson said. “We have to think, OK: What is it we really want to accomplish? What are the goals here? And we have to think a little bit more deeply about that than we have in the past.” ...

See the full story here: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/magazine/ai-new-jobs.html