TechStuff TechSupport: 22 Jobs For An AI Future
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Aug 29, 2025 Journalist Robert Capps, known for his insightful reporting on jobs impacted by technology, discusses the emergence of 22 new roles in an AI-driven workplace. He highlights how AI might replace some jobs but also creates new opportunities requiring human oversight. The conversation turns to the importance of trust in technology and the rising role of human creativity in navigating AI outputs. Capps even tests AI's journalism skills, suggesting there's less to fear than we might think.
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Three Buckets For AI-Era Jobs
- Robert Capps grouped future AI jobs into three buckets: trust, integration, and taste.
- These buckets map where humans remain necessary as AI tools become widespread.
Writer's Experiment With An AI First Draft
- Capps tried using AI to draft his article quickly as a lark and test the technology's limits.
- The AI draft wasn’t publishable and highlighted how far AI still has to go for trust-sensitive work.
Responsibility Remains Human
- AI cannot accept moral responsibility or bear accountability for outputs the way humans can.
- That inability creates persistent roles for humans to sign off and take blame where necessary.
