AI-Proof Jobs Finder

Looking for AI-proof jobs? This free finder shows how exposed 150 common US jobs are to AI, using the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ new AI exposure categories (published August 27, 2026) and Microsoft Research’s AI applicability scores, next to median pay and projected job growth through 2035. Look up your own job, or filter for the careers that are least exposed.

No job is completely AI-proof, and exposure is not the same as job loss. But the data shows clear patterns in which kinds of work AI overlaps with most, and which it barely touches.

How to use the AI-proof job finder

1. Look up a job. Type a title and pick the closest match. Everyday names work too, like CNA, realtor or HVAC.
2. Read the BLS exposure group first (Low, Moderate, High or Very high), then the Microsoft score for a finer ranking.
3. Check growth and pay. A job can be highly exposed to AI and still be growing.
4. Find low-exposure careers. Filter by the kind of work you want, the education you have or will get, and a pay floor.
5. Not on the list? The quick self-check shows where your own mix of work points.

Which jobs are safe from AI? What the data says

In August 2026 the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) published AI exposure categories for every occupation it projects. BLS combined five research sources, three that estimate what AI could do and two based on observed AI use (from Anthropic’s Claude and Microsoft’s Copilot), and sorted jobs into four groups. BLS describes “Low” as jobs whose requirements don’t match well with current AI capabilities, where AI hasn’t been seen doing many of the tasks. “Very high” means a larger share of the tasks can be done or assisted by AI, and AI has been seen doing some of them.

Microsoft Research’s study analyzed 200,000 anonymized Bing Copilot conversations and scored how applicable AI is to each occupation’s work. It found the most common and successful AI-assisted activities are information work: creating, processing and communicating information. Scores run from 0 to about 0.49, so we also show where each job ranks among the 785 occupations in the study.

The pattern is consistent: hands-on trades, in-person care and physical work sit at the low end, while writing, translating, customer service and sales sit at the high end.

AI-proof jobs that are still growing

These jobs from our finder are all in the BLS Low AI exposure group and are projected to grow faster than the 3.5% average for all jobs from 2025 to 2035.

Electricians, plumbers and HVAC technicians are one step up, in the Moderate group, and are also projected to grow faster than average.

The jobs most exposed to AI

At the other end, the highest Microsoft scores in our finder belong to interpreters and translators (0.49), writers and authors (0.45), customer service representatives (0.41), telemarketers (0.40) and technical writers (0.37). All are in the BLS Very high group.

BLS expects office and administrative support jobs to shrink 4.0% from 2025 to 2035, the fastest decline of any major job group, partly because of automation tools, including AI. In its projection notes, BLS names AI as a reason for lower demand for customer service representatives, data entry keyers and medical transcriptionists, among others.

But high exposure doesn’t always mean fewer jobs. Data scientists are in the Very high group and are still projected to grow 34.6%, one of the 10 fastest rates of any occupation, because BLS expects them to be needed to develop, improve and use these technologies.

Exposure is not job loss

• BLS: an exposure category is not a forecast of job growth or decline, wages or worker replacement, and “Low” doesn’t mean a job is safe from future change.
• Microsoft: its scores should not be read as measuring AI’s ability to replace jobs. They show what people use AI for and how well it works.
• The AI in the data is already dated. BLS notes the theoretical sources reflect AI capabilities up to mid-2023, and Microsoft’s conversations are from January to September 2024.
• Scores are built from tasks. Both sources score a job by its individual tasks or work activities, so most jobs have some tasks AI overlaps with and some it doesn’t. Learning to use AI for the overlapping part is usually the practical move.

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Checked against the BLS AI exposure categories, the BLS 2025 to 2035 Employment Projections and Microsoft Research’s Working with AI data on October 18, 2026.