In the past two years, the number of job titles that have shifted to include the word “AI” has increased by 200%.
This is it according to new research from the data and software company ZoomInfowhich tracks more than 1.5 million staff changes every day through a proprietary database of contacts.
ZoomInfo found that the most common AI-related job titles were engineers, scientists, developers and researchers. Almost half of all AI job titles also included the word engineer.
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The focus on engineering-related AI roles shows that companies are still building the technical infrastructure needed for AI, for Fast Company.
ZoomInfo also found that the number of AI-related managerial roles exploded in two years. In the second quarter of 2022, ZoomInfo's database tracked nearly 3,700 new AI leadership roles. By the second quarter of 2024, that number had nearly tripled to 10,875 new AI management positions added that quarter.
Most of this growth was concentrated in the C-Suite, which saw a 428% increase in AI-related roles in two years.
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The data comes at a time when organizations are using AI to supplement human work. Buy now, pay later fintech company Klarna, for example, is using AI to fill in the gaps walked away by laying off workers instead of hiring new ones while Salesforce says its AI agents can replace gig workers for its customers.
Thomson Reuters CEO Steve Hasker told The Toronto Star in an article published on Monday in Thomson Reuters, “professionals will not be replaced by AI, but may be replaced by people using AI.”
“We think that within three to five years every journalist will be using an AI assistant to help them do research, fact-check, generate story ideas and create first drafts,” he said. “The same goes for lawyers, tax, audit and accounting professionals, maybe even people like me.”
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