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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Anthony Cuthbertson

OpenAI co-founder shares list of jobs most at risk to AI – then deletes it

A 'Now Hiring' sign is posted in a shop on 6 March, 2026 in Pasadena, California - (Getty Images)

One of the co-founders of OpenAI has provoked controversy after creating – and then deleting – a list of jobs that are most vulnerable to being performed by artificial intelligence.

Andrej Karpathy, who helped found the ChatGPT creator in 2015, made the list of jobs by using AI to analyse data from every occupation on the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) Outlook Handbook, covering 143 million jobs across the US economy.

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