--- title: "Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How To Measure Whether AI Will Take Your Job (2026-03-15)" author: "Christopher S Penn" date: 2026-03-15 url: https://www.christopherspenn.com/2026/03/almost-timely-news-%f0%9f%97%9e%ef%b8%8f-how-to-measure-whether-ai-will-take-your-job-2026-03-15/ categories: - "AI" - "Almost Timely" - "Artificial Intelligence" - "Generative AI" --- # Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How To Measure Whether AI Will Take Your Job (2026-03-15) _Almost Timely News: 🗞️ How To Measure Whether AI Will Take Your Job (2026-03-15) :: [View in Browser](https://almosttimely.substack.com/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15)_ [![Almost Timely News](https://www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/newalmosttimelyheader.jpg)](https://www.christopherspenn.com/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) ## The Big Plug [👉 **I've got a new course! 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In it, they showed the theoretical maximum impact of AI on professions and then the current use based on Claude aggregated usage. ![Anthropic Chart](https://www.christopherspenn.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/2026-03-14_16-08-25.png) I thought the study overall was directionally helpful, to understand broadly what industries are already seeing impact and what the probable highest impact areas are, but these are at the macro level. That’s understandable both from a privacy protection angle as well as having enough data. But that got me thinking - what if we could drill down further, to understand our personal exposure to AI in a more focused way? What if we could see the theoretical maximum impact for our specific careers or even our current jobs? One of the biggest questions everyone has at every event I speak at is w"hen is AI going to take over my job?" People want to know about AI's impact to them personally. They want to know "how exposed am I or my kids or my friends to AI and employment risks". How could we go about doing this? Unsurprisingly, we use AI for it. Let’s explore how. ### Part 1: Identifying Tasks At [Trust Insights](https://www.trustinsights.ai?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) we spend a heck of a lot of time on frameworks to help contextualize AI. One of ours, the [TRIPS framework](https://www.trustinsights.ai/trips?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15), looks at five factors to evaluate any task: - **Time**: How much time does a task take? The more time a task takes, the better a candidate it could be for AI. - **Repetitiveness**: How repetitious is a task? The more repetitive a task is, the better it might be for AI to handle it. - **Importance**: How economically important is a task? The more valuable a task is economically, the more sense it makes to have AI do that task. Assuming the same quality of output but dramatically increased speed, AI can add to the bottom line faster for more economically important tasks. - **Pain**: How painful is a task? The more painful a task is, the better candidate it is for AI. AI adoption goes up as painful tasks go down. - **Sufficient Data**: How many examples do you have of successful task outcomes? The more success examples and data you can provide, the better AI will do at a task. [My cofounder and CEO Katie Robbert teaches this at length in the AI-Ready Strategist course, if you want to see it applied at a company scale.](https://www.trustinsights.ai/aistrategycourse?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) The TRIPS framework is often something that we use when we’re auditing companies for AI readiness, but it’s also something that AI itself is quite good at evaluating. Our first step is to understand the most common tasks for any given position. The easiest way to do this is to grab a small collection of job descriptions. Head over to your favorite job board and put in your job title or position - your current one, and if you’re thinking about making a change, an aspirational job title. Copy and paste 3-5 job descriptions for that position so you get a sense of what’s involved in a job, then put that all in a text document. Once you’ve done that, ask your favorite AI of choice to make a granular list of tasks that comprise the job. Here’s a starting prompt. > Based on the job descriptions in {your text file name}, infer a list of the top 25-100 individual tasks a person in this job is most likely to perform, in descending order of frequency. We define a task as a singular work output. An example of a task is creating a weekly report. Part of your analysis should include 3-7 broad categories of tasks from the job descriptions; this field should be named task_category. Format your response as YAML array with the task name, task category, a concise one sentence description of the task, the percentage frequency that the task occurs weekly in that job, and five columns from the Trust Insights TRIPS framework, scoring the task on an integer score of 1-5 for each of the 5 dimensions, inferring scores based on the job description and your background knowledge. Use your web search tools if you are not confident in your estimates. Return your result as a YAML array. If there are more than 100 tasks, truncate at 100. Ask me questions until you have enough information to complete the task. Copy and paste the TRIPS framework after. What you’ll end up with is a pile of YAML, a data format that AI is excellent at reading. This is likely to be quite extensive, and that's good. The more granular and specific we can be, the better. ### Part 2: Identifying Theoretical Maxima Next, we need to ask AI to amend the YAML array with some scoring based on how likely it is any individual task can be automated by AI. We’ll add that as a field into the YAML array. As a sidebar, one of the reasons we want to do this in YAML is that YAML is a single column linear data format that AI is not only good at reading, but can be broken up into chunks if necessary without losing data. Large Language Models (LLMs) have a much easier time breaking up a YAML array into chunks and processing them individually or in small batches than they do, say, a spreadsheet. Why? Because the descriptive data is never lost; in a spreadsheet, the descriptive data is usually the first row, so if you truncate a table after row 100, row 101 doesn’t have the headers and so you have less of an idea about what a row is about in the next batch of data. YAML, JSON, XML, and similar formats all keep the descriptive data with the data itself in every row of data. With that in mind, let’s now add to our tasks file. We need to be specific to help an LLM consider the task and the likelihood a machine can successfully complete that task with today’s frontier models, so here’s a fairly dense starting prompt. > Next, using the existing YAML array, let’s augment it with a 0-10 integer score estimate of how likely it is generative AI is capable of performing the task with an 80% success rate. Name this field ai_likelihood. For context, the current top scores on generative AI evaluations as of 2026 are: METR 50%: 12 hours. METR 80%: 90 minutes. GDPval-AA (ELO-500/2000): 58%. Terminal-Bench Hard: 58%. Tau-2 Bench Telecom: 98%. AA-LCR: 74%. AA-Omniscience: 55%. Humanity’s Last Exam: 45%. GPQA Diamond: 94%. Scicode: 59%. IFBench: 83%. CritPT: 30%. MMMU Pro: 82%. Remote Labor Index: 4.17%. Generative AI includes text generation, image generation, audio and video generation, tool use, and agentic harnesses. Infer your score based on the task description and TRIPS scores, paying special attention to repetitiveness and sufficient data as significant indicators that a task can be successfully performed by AI. Use your web search tools if you are not confident in your estimates. Use a scratchpad to reason with, then conclude from your reasoning what the score would be. Amend the YAML array with your scores. Do not include the scratchpad in your scores. Ask me questions until you have enough information to complete the task. What we end up with is a large YAML array of our tasks that make up our job, the TRIPS scores for how good a candidate task is for AI, and the AI’s judgement based on today’s benchmarks of how likely it is AI can succeed at that task. ### Part 3: Assessing Our Job Risk A job is a collection of tasks. The more tasks that AI consumes, the more likely it is we will feel AI’s impact in our employment, not because AI can do the entire job, but because AI can eat away at tasks until a person’s job is mostly managing AI. And when you’re managing AI, if you have 50 people who did a job (like a content writer, for example), and AI consumes 80% of the tasks, you now only need 10 people managing AI systems to match or exceed the productivity and quality of the original group of 50 people. That is how AI costs jobs. Not by taking your job entirely, but by reducing the number of people in aggregate that are needed to do a particular job because AI does many of the tasks within that job. Based on the large amount of data we now have in our YAML file, we can now direct AI to help us do the analysis. In the same way that Anthropic did their radar chart (which looks cool, even if it’s not the easiest way to read that data), we can have our AI digest the YAML file and turn it into a visualization. Use this as a starting prompt: > Using the complete YAML array, let’s perform some data analysis and create an AI job exposure dashboard. From the YAML file, using simple-statistics JS, our dashboard should compute the median ai_likelihood for our job overall and for each of the categories identified by the task_category field. You’ll output the analysis in HTML, CSS, JS, CDNJS with libraries like chart.js or d3.js via CDNJS. Create an overall chart of AI likelihood for our job along with interquartile ranges. Then create a blue radar chart in descending order by category of the median and IQRs for ai_likelihood. Hovering the mouse over each slice of the radar chart should show the data label and data point value. Ask me questions until you have enough information to complete the task. We now have a complete assessment of our exposure to AI, of what AI is likely to do to our current job and possibly our career. So, do we just throw our hands up or open a bottle of Scotch? Not at all. Now we dig in. ### Part 4: Skating Ahead of the Puck Walter Gretzky, the father of hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, once told his child, "Skate to where the puck is going, not to where it is". (which, by the way, both father and son say is the advice you give to little kids and is generally not great hockey strategy for adults) In the general spirit of the quote, you have a map of where your current position is exposed to AI. If, overall, your position is substantially exposed, meaning that 50% or more of your tasks are things AI could claim, then you should start thinking about reinventing yourself and your career. There are two generally accepted ways to do this. First, you pursue being an early adopter of AI so that you automate away most of your tasks and you become the AI expert in your company at those tasks. The institutional knowledge you encode in the successful operation of AI is what gives you some defense - essentially becoming one of the people that can't be laid off as easily because you know how to operate the machines. Second, you pursue angles and aspects that are less exposed to AI. Of the task list, which things are economically important (the I in trips) but aren't tasks that AI is capable of doing well today? In the short term, those are the things you lean into. Both strategies have flaws, namely that AI capabilities are accelerating at an exponential rate and something AI can't do well today is something it's likely to do well at tomorrow. Where you have some degree of safety is the speed of adoption, and that leads us back to Anthropic's chart. For industries that have a low overall theoretical maximum exposure to AI, the second strategy of leaning into the tasks that aren't ones AI does well is sensible. For industries that have a high overall theoretical maximum exposure to AI but do not have a current large maximum, such as architecture and engineering, then the first strategy is more sensible. And if you're in an industry where the theoretical and practical maximums are high? For example, if you're a software developer? That profession is being devoured by machines. While there are growing pains in the adoption of AI for coding, the reality is that, as Anthropic's Boris Cherny said recently, coding is largely a solved problem now. Human beings should not be manually typing out code any more. And that means it might be time to exit that industry OR pivot your career so that you're using the outcomes of software development but not focused on deriving economic value from the process of software development any more. This should sound familiar, as I talked about it not too long ago - the value chain and working your way up it. Commodity > Branded Product/Goods > Service > Experience > Transformation Knowledge work outputs are almost free with AI. Suno can create music. Claude can write books. Codex et. al. can code. Nano Banana can paint, draw, photograph, etc. and as long as someone competent is directing the tools or the tools are harnessed properly to do it themselves, which they can do now, these knowledge products are commodities. "Screw you, Chris, I'm not a commodity and that's insulting!" You're not a commodity, but your basic output is IF you don't work your way up the value chain. Remember Porter's 5 Forces? If the customer doesn't have a strong preference and just wants an escapist book, AND they don't understand your value prop, then an AI-generated trashy romance novel is just as good as a human one. Which means you have to evolve up the value chain. A book is a book UNLESS you've built such a strong brand that people want YOU by name, and then your book becomes a movie, a TV series, and ultimately something like a theme park attraction at the highest level of evolution. Musicians understand this well. Music is a commodity by itself UNTIL someone dials into your brand. And the best musicians convert a branded product into a service - like live concerts. Those concerts become epics unto themselves, true experiences (ask any Swiftie), and the best experiences are personally transformative that people pay hilarious amounts of money for. As you look at the tasks that are most exposed to AI, I would bet you most of those are commodity outputs, which means that if you want to be perceived as economically valuable, you have to work your way up the value chain. Your commodity output could be wrapped in a service, turned into an experience, or even a transformation - and that's how you'll stay ahead of AI (or more likely, use AI to achieve those leaps). How? With a prompt like this. Pick any one task that scores an 8 or above from the YAML file. Start with this prompt, then paste the task below it along with the Trust Insights TRIPS framework. Also consider including your CV. > Based on this assessment of AI's ability to consume tasks, this is a task that I perform which AI is highly likely to consume in its current form. The task is scored by the Trust Insights TRIPS framework. Let's think about how we can move up the value chain for this task so that I provide increased economic value; AI may be able to do the base version of the task, but what are some uniquely human ways I can take this task and move it up the value chain so that the new version of the task is difficult to outsource to AI? The value chain is: Commodity > Branded Product/Goods > Service > Experience > Transformation. Think through 3-7 different ways of moving up the value chain that I could do, and present them in descending order of probability of success in retaining the task and not handing it over to AI. What you should get is a nice set of recommendations for ways to uplevel that task to keep it as human as possible for as long as possible. We ultimately want to know what people will still give us a paycheck for. ### Part 5: Wrapping Up This issue wasn't meant to scare you, but it absolutely is meant to be a wake up call for all of us, in every job and career, to recognize where we are exposed to AI taking away tasks. The sooner we have a clear-eyed view of that, the sooner we can act to shore up our value to our companies and customers by either being in charge of AI or finding the niches and opportunities outside of AI. The exercises in part four of taking tasks that are vulnerable to AI and up-leveling them to things that people would still want to pay you for is where your next steps are. If you do that exercise for your own background and your job description and the things that you do the most of, you will find ways to remain valuable even as AI technology improves, because you can go back through this entire process from the very beginning as AI technology changes, change the prompts, change the background data, and keep generating new recommendations for how you can continue to add value. I guess in some ways, this is the third path of not just being in charge of AI or not just finding niches where AI doesn't operate well, but finding those unique opportunities that take your background into account and your capabilities and ultimately help you deliver AI-enabled versions of your work that people still are willing to pay you money for. So I hope this was helpful. I hope this was useful. 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If you're looking for work, check out these recent open positions, and check out the Slack group for the comprehensive list. - [Chief Marketing Officer at RateGain](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4381020150/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Chief Marketing Officer at Suron](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4381034786/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Director Of Product Marketing at easy](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4382615378/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Director Of Product Marketing, Gtm Narrative at ClearML](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4382377363/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Director Of Us Marketing at Booksy](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4378956678/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Director, Product Marketing at SQUIRE](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4364795249/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Senior Director Global Marketing at Amundi](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4382442326/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Svp Of Marketing at Hyperproof](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4365784128/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Vice President Of Marketing at Buckingham Search](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4380526805/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Vp Growth Marketing at Numera](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4382056716/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) - [Vp Of Product Marketing at PolyAI](https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4366155902/?utm_source=almost-timely-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=almost-timely-2026-03-15) ## Advertisement: My AI Book! 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