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On this pageThe short answerTasks that stay with peopleIn SingaporeFind your occupationQuestions

Will AI replace my job?

Rarely the whole job. It takes over tasks — some of yours, probably not all. The useful question is which of your tasks sit on which side, and what that judgement rests on.

Tasks automating
103
Done faster with tools
87
Still led by people
181
New work automation created
63

Counts of task judgements across 84 occupations on this site — task by task, never summed into a score for a job.

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Jobs AI can't replace? Tasks it isn't taking#

No occupation on this site is AI-proof in every task. But some tasks stay with people — one per sector below, each backed by a verified record, each with what the judgement does not establish.

Tech & data

Knowing when the data is lying

Data analyst

What it does not establish: Institutional memory of the data is built by working with it daily. If the daily querying moves to self-service, the memory that makes this task possible stops accumulating.

Transport & logistics

Being responsible for the load

Truck driver

What it does not establish: Someone must legally accept the freight, but that someone does not have to have driven it there. Hub models already split the two, and where they do, the acceptance work moves to dock staff on an hourly wage.

Health & care

Talking to patients and families

Registered nurse

What it does not establish: The site's own reasoning says the constraint is staffing, which is a funding problem. A task nobody intends to automate can still be a task nobody is paid enough to do.

Business & finance

Deciding whom to hire

HR / recruiter

What it does not establish: The decision stays human while everything feeding it — sourcing, screening, scheduling, note-taking — does not. Protecting the final call protects one hour in a process that used to take twenty.

Creative & media

Judging quality and defending the call

Graphic designer

What it does not establish: Judgement becoming more valuable does not mean more people get to exercise it. A team that needed six designers to produce may need two to judge — the survivors are better paid and fewer.

Trades, building & farming

Approvals and coordinating the team

Architect

What it does not establish: Negotiating with authorities is protected by how authorities work, which is a rule set, not a law of nature. Digital planning submission regimes are already narrowing what has to be argued in person.

Law, public service & education

Giving advice someone will act on

Lawyer

What it does not establish: A licensing rule is a policy choice, and policy choices are argued about when the cost difference becomes large enough. Several jurisdictions are already consulting on what non-lawyers may do.

Retail, hospitality & service

Helping with the complicated cases

Bank teller

What it does not establish: Exceptions are a rising share of what walks in the door because the routine left, not because there are more exceptions. A branch serving only exceptions serves far fewer people and needs far fewer staff.

In Singapore#

The latest verified records whose source is a Singapore ministry or agency:

  • 2026-07-23 Singapore reported more than 140 projects by 300 firms had submitted through CORENET X, and narrowed its October 2026 mandate to projects of 5,000 m² and above
  • 2026-07-02 Singapore's social ministry set aside S$15 million over three years to incubate and pilot new technology in social services
  • 2026-07-01 Singapore's Building Control Act, as amended from July 2026, requires a qualified person's signed certificate with every plan and lets major works be approved on an accredited checker's certificate
  • 2026-05-22 Singapore's police began drone patrols from eight pods and put an AI report-lodging assistant into its division headquarters and neighbourhood centres
  • 2026-05-22 Singapore's Second Minister for Home Affairs said the police cannot hire its way out of a shortage and described AI deployed from report lodging onward
  • 2026-03-26 Singapore's social minister said 106 social service agencies were using Scribe, a free AI tool that turns conversations into case notes

Find your occupation#

Tech & data

  • Junior software developer
  • Data analyst
  • Product / UX designer
  • Software tester / QA engineer
  • AI implementation lead
  • Business systems owner
  • Experienced software engineer
  • Frontend developer
  • Backend developer
  • Data engineer
  • Product manager
  • Machine learning engineer
  • AI researcher
  • IT support specialist / helpdesk
  • Security analyst (SOC)
  • DevOps / platform / SRE engineer
  • Technical writer / documentation engineer

Transport & logistics

  • Truck driver
  • Warehouse worker
  • Delivery rider / courier
  • Ride-hail / taxi driver
  • Metro train driver
  • Container port worker
  • Air traffic controller
  • Airline pilot
  • Bus driver
  • Cabin crew

Health & care

  • Registered nurse
  • Pharmacist
  • Radiologist
  • Counsellor / therapist
  • General practitioner / primary care doctor
  • Care worker / nursing assistant
  • Medical assistant / clinic assistant
  • Medical laboratory technician
  • Physiotherapist / rehabilitation therapist
  • Dentist

Business & finance

  • Accountant / Bookkeeper
  • Marketing specialist
  • Financial analyst
  • HR / recruiter
  • Administrative assistant
  • Sales / account manager
  • First-line manager / team supervisor
  • Operations coordinator
  • Partnerships / channel manager
  • Auditor
  • Insurance claims handler
  • Procurement / supply chain specialist
  • Management consultant
  • Loan officer / credit officer
  • E-commerce operations specialist
  • Actuary

Creative & media

  • Translator / Interpreter
  • Graphic designer
  • Journalist
  • Copywriter
  • Video editor
  • Content moderator

Trades, building & farming

  • Architect
  • Assembly line worker
  • Electrician
  • Cleaner / janitor
  • Security guard
  • Construction worker
  • Auto mechanic / vehicle technician
  • Civil / structural engineer
  • Farmer

Law, public service & education

  • Paralegal
  • Lawyer
  • School teacher
  • Government service clerk
  • Compliance officer
  • Firefighter
  • Police officer
  • Social worker

Retail, hospitality & service

  • Customer service representative
  • Bank teller
  • Retail cashier / shop assistant
  • Chef / cook
  • Real estate agent
  • Retail salesperson / shop assistant
  • Waiter / restaurant server
  • Receptionist / front desk

Questions#

Will AI replace my job?

Rarely as a whole job. What changes is tasks: of the 434 task judgements across 84 occupations on this site, 103 are automating, 87 are being done faster by people with tools, 181 stay led by people and 63 are new work automation created. Which of your tasks sit where is the useful question — each occupation page answers it task by task.

Which jobs can't AI replace?

No occupation on this site is untouched in every task, so no list of 'AI-proof jobs' would be honest. What does hold up is tasks: judgement someone is accountable for, work in unpredictable physical settings, and dealing with people when the stakes are real. This page shows one such task per sector, each backed by a verified record.

How many years until AI takes my job?

This site does not answer with a year, and neither does anyone who can show their working. What it gives instead is a signal you can check yourself on your occupation's page: which of your tasks are already automating somewhere, where adoption stalled, and what would change the picture.

Will AI replace jobs in Singapore?

The same task-level answer applies, and some of the evidence is local: the records below come from Singapore's own ministries and agencies — what was deployed, what was funded, and what the law now requires a person to sign.

Why no percentage?

Because a single 'chance of being replaced' for a job hides the only part you can act on — which tasks — and there is no evidence that could make that number checkable. Every judgement on this site says what it rests on and what it does not establish instead.