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Jez Corden

Microsoft reveals 40 jobs about to be destroyed by AI — is your career on the list?

SHANGHAI, CHINA - JULY 26: Humanoid robots Qinglong sort goods at the logistics sorting line during the exhibition of 2025 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC2025) at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition and Convention Center on July 26, 2025 in Shanghai, China. Under the theme "Global Solidarity in the AI Era," the annual three-day conference, running from Saturday to Monday, has attracted over 800 Chinese and international exhibitors, showcasing more than 3,000 exhibits - a record high, including 40 large language models, 50 AI-powered devices, and 60 intelligent robots, according to the organizer. (Photo by Tian Yuhao/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images).

It's RIP for journalists (🥲), and many other professions, according to Microsoft Research.

In a new paper recently published by Microsoft's research division, a team of data scientists revealed a variety of professions most likely to be impacted by AI based on a variety of factors. The team studied the United States job market specifically, although it stands to reason that, without some form of global regulation, these predictions could apply to virtually any developed or developing nation right now.

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