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Prompt engineer is the newest role, but many other roles will follow.
Human professionals will be needed to keep AI productive and in check.
Here are 11 new types of jobs only starting to be imagined.
Yes, certain job roles will be key to succeeding in an AI-drenched workplace -- data scientists, data analysts, and Python programmers come to mind. There's also a lot of attention on an emerging profession -- prompt engineer.
At least 85% of US workers across all generations believe AI prompting will be an important job skill within the next five years, a new survey by Rev shows. Gen Z sees the potential: 63% of these younger respondents say strong prompt-writing skills will "definitely" be a career asset.
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These are all roles that look like obvious career paths from today's perspective. But we don't know what kind of world AI will open in the near and distant future, just as nobody could have foreseen jobs such as "webmaster" or "cloud architect" back in the early days of the commercial internet.
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