They’re some of the world’s most in-demand tech jobs — but what does a day in the life of an artificial intelligence engineer look like? CNBC got a first-hand look at how AI is transforming three very different industries.
“Artificial intelligence” and “job creation” aren’t typically two terms thrown together in the same sentence — and for good reason. One report from Goldman Sachs in 2023 estimated 300 million full-time jobs could be lost to automation.
And yet, that is only one side of the story. Tens of millions of jobs are also being created by AI, with jobs that require AI specialist skills growing at 3.5 times the pace of jobs overall.
PwC’s 2024 AI Jobs Barometer, which analyzed over half a billion job ads posted since 2016,1 also found that these jobs can carry a wage premium – 25% on average in the United States, 14% in the United Kingdom, 11% in Canada and …