Microsoft reveals 40 jobs about to be destroyed by AI

There is a comparable study from Anthropic:

"Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations"

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04761

It says: "Our analysis reveals that AI usage primarily concentrates in software development and writing tasks, which together account for nearly half of all total usage."

I believe these studies say more about the usage patterns for specific LLMs, than they do say about AI in general.

Going through this list I question whether Microsoft Research has an experiential understanding of how the world works or how people work. Personally, I would say 15 to 20 jobs on their list are going to be significantly impacted (not "destroyed") by AI.

Strange results. There are no lawyers or other jobs with a legal background in the list. Also I don't see health related jobs (doctors etc.) impacted by AI.

A lot of these are like customer service, service salespeople? And my experience the tru value those folks provide is not answering questions that could be answered by the documentation, it’s navigating the poorly worn paths.

>CNC Tool Programmers

Nah. Those cnc machines are still running win95 and 98.

>Political Scientists

Nah, will need to study ai impacts independently of ai.

>Data Scientists

soon to just be ai scientists.

>Web Developers

web devs will be using ai is all.

The rest of this list... yep goners.