Is AI here to stay?
AI investment, hiring, and adoption are still accelerating globally, including in Australia. Governments, large enterprises, and startups are all building AI into products, operations, and services, not just running experiments. Reports now treat AI as a long-term general-purpose technology like electricity or the internet, not a passing trend.
What jobs will matter most?
Roles that are hard to automate, or that make AI useful and safe, will be especially important:
- AI and data specialists – AI/ML engineers, data scientists, data engineers, AI product managers, and AI safety / governance roles will keep growing as organisations scale AI systems.
- “Translators” and adoption leaders – people who sit between business and technical teams (product leaders, transformation leads, AI adoption strategists) and turn vague ideas into workable use cases and change programs.
- Human-centric roles – jobs relying on empathy, trust, and complex human judgment (healthcare, education, leadership, coaching, complex sales, HR business partners) are expected to be augmented by AI, not replaced.
- Skilled trades and on-site work – many hands-on roles in trades, field work, and care still need physical presence and human problem-solving, with AI acting as decision support and planning, not a substitute.
In short, the safest careers will be those where people use AI as leverage—to decide better, create faster, and solve more complex problems—rather than trying to compete with it head‑on.
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