According to Indeed, about 26% of jobs posted in the past year could be ‘highly’ changed by generative AI.
Generative AI could transform jobs more than it replaces them.
Jobs requiring more physical labor are less exposed to AI automation.
The rate of AI adoption will vary between industries and businesses.
The rise of generative AI tools in recent years has led to fears of an inevitable jobs apocalypse — a wave of automation akin to the Industrial Revolution that pushes massive quantities of humans out of the workforce.
At least for the time being, that hasn’t come to pass. Despite predictions from some tech industry leaders that AI will soon replace a significant swathe of human workers, the technology’s impact on the labor market has thus far been minimal.
New data from employment search engine Indeed, however, shows that generative AI is able to automate a growing number of job skills. That suggests that rather than pushing humans out of their jobs entirely, AI will start to become an increasingly important tool within the workplace. Transformation vs. replacement
Indeed’s latest AI at Work Report, an annual study measuring the technology’s impact in the job market, found that more than a quarter (26%) of jobs that had been posted on the platform in the past year could be «highly» transformed by generative AI.
The study assessed the capabilities of two models, OpenAI’s GPT-4.1 and Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4, and how effectively they were able to perform across a range of close to 3,000 key work skills. To that end, the researchers deployed what they call the GenAI Skill Transformation Index (GSTI), a metric gauging the degree to which generative AI will transform particular job requirements, rather than the technology’s potential to replace jobs wholesale.
