High-Paying Jobs at Greater Risk of AI Displacement, Says OpenAI Cofounder

Andrej Karpathy used AI to gauge which U.S. professions are most vulnerable to the technology amid growing fears that a jobs apocalypse may be headed for the economy. Recommended Video Over the weekend, the OpenAI cofounder and former director of AI at Tesla posted a graphic showing how susceptible every occupation is to Al and automation, using

Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Different jobs received scores on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 being most exposed. While the overall weighted exposure was 4.9, Karpathy’s data also showed that professions earning more than $100,000 a year had the worst average score (6.7), while the those earning less than $35,000 had the lowest exposure (3.4).

His chart quickly drew attention online, with many predicting doom for white-collar workers. But Karpathy soon removed the data. “This was a saturday morning 2 hour vibe coded project inspired by a book I’m reading,” he explained on X on Sunday morning.

“I thought the code/data might be helpful to others to explore the BLS dataset visually, or color it in different ways or with different prompts or add their own visualizations.