Worry surrounding artificial intelligence is very much real, with it threatening the livelihoods of many individuals, especially those in the creative industries.
But not every job out there is under the threat of the growing presence of AI.
In fact, some are deemed to be incredibly safe from the growing technology akin to something from the Terminator franchise.
With platforms like Elon Musk's Grok growing in popularity alongside ChatGPT, it should come as no surprise that a survey from HR Technologies UK found 80 percent of employers were likely to use AI when it came to aiding their own hiring processes when bringing in new staff.
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Klarna, the incredibly popular buy now pay later service, even made 1,250 people redundant last year due to ways it could 'streamline' its business using technology - while clarifying to the press that it was upping the pay of remaining staff members.
Research from Goldman Sachs reveals that up to 300 million full-time equivalent jobs could be replaced AI. And that's only in the next half a decade until 2030.
On jobs that remain 'safe', experts at Adzuna analysed data and research from the OECD and Goldman Sachs to look at some of the most at-risk jobs where AI could replace the need for a person in a paid role.
The research was relating to jobs posted in November 2024, so is pretty recent to the current job market around the world.
Those that are not at risk are what we could classify as specialist medical roles that also come with impressive salaries.
Surgeons were not at risk, with them raking in roughly £80,000 a year. This as alongside physicists, dentists, psychologists, and dermatologists.
Manual labour roles were also seen as safe bets if you wanted to choose a secure industry. We're talking roles such as plumbers, floor layers, and roofers.
More bespoke roles such as pest controllers and crane drivers were also safe, believe it or not.
Museum curators also made the safe list alongside dentists, carpenters, and marriage counsellors.
Janine Chamberlin, LinkedIn’s UK manager, has previously said that those in the job market should be wary of going all in on AI-based roles.
She said: "Two decades ago, the foundations were laid for jobs built on the internet, and today, we see those roles towering above the rest. Now, the next phase is underway – jobs shaped by AI.
"It won’t be long before the landscape will shift again from AI to another emerging area, the world of work will change, and new jobs will be created."
Last year in the United States, members of the SAG-AFTRA union - which represents around 160,000 voice actors - voted to strike over the use of generative AI in video games.
They won't be the last to act on this issue when it comes to people working in industries hit by the creeping threat AI.
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Tom Earnshaw