Is Your Job AI-Proof? The 2026 Vulnerability Index for 50 Professions

How We Score AI Vulnerability

Each profession is scored 0–100 on AI resistance (higher = more resistant). The score combines three factors:

1. Physical presence requirement (0–35 points): Can the core work be done without physical presence in an uncontrolled environment?

2. Judgment complexity (0–35 points): Does the work require decisions under uncertainty that can't be reduced to rules?

3. Accountability requirement (0–30 points): Does the work carry legal, professional, or ethical liability that requires a licensed human?

The Full Vulnerability Index

Tier 1: Highly Resistant (Score 80–100)

Tier 2: Moderately Resistant (Score 60–79)

Tier 3: Moderate Vulnerability (Score 40–59)

Tier 4: High Vulnerability (Score 20–39)

Tier 5: Near-Elimination (Score 0–19)

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What to Do With Your Score

Score 80–100: Protect Your Position

Your role has structural AI resistance. Focus: ensure you're using AI to enhance your already-strong position. AI-assisted surgeons, lawyers, and engineers are more effective — and more competitive — than those who ignore the tools.

Score 60–79: Amplify Your Strengths

Your role has meaningful resistance in some areas and real vulnerability in others. Identify which tasks in your day are in the vulnerable category and learn to use AI for those — before those tasks justify your replacement.

Score 40–59: Act Within 12 Months

Your role is in active transition. The tasks being automated are real and accelerating. The playbook: develop the high-judgment, high-relationship aspects of your role. Get one AI certification that positions you to manage the AI doing your old tasks. See how to break into AI without coding.

Score 20–39: Reposition Now

Your current role is being materially restructured. The most effective move: identify which adjacent role in your domain has a higher AI resistance score, and begin the transition. The skills and domain knowledge transfer — the task mix is what needs to change.

Score 0–19: Immediate Action Required

If your score is below 20, your current role may not exist in its current form by 2028. This is not a prediction of unemployment — it's a prediction of role restructuring that requires active response. The AI jobs of 2030 guide outlines where roles are being created.

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