The number of job titles that involve AI, even outside the tech world, is surging - NBC News

Oh, marvellous. The age of AI employment has arrived, and it's exactly as hollow as we feared. Indeed's latest data tells us that job titles mentioning 'AI' have tripled since 2022, now gracing 1 in 12 postings. Because nothing says 'revolutionary job creation' like desperately rebranding call centre roles as 'Customer-Facing AI Orchestrators.' The consultancy class will have a field day with this—just as they did last week when Draup assured us AI wasn't reducing demand. Now we're meant to be thrilled that the same job boards are plastered with 'AI prompt engineer' positions that will evaporate when the next model auto-generates better prompts than any human.

Notice the weasel words: 'appearing in 1 in 12 job postings.' That's listings, not hires. Every mediocre manager is adding 'AI' to job titles to look cutting-edge, while the actual skills required remain unchanged. The tripling is inflation, not expansion—like a company announcing record revenue while selling the same number of widgets at triple the price.

But the real joke? This data covers 'even outside the tech world.' So your local hospital now wants an 'AI-Assisted Radiograph Technician' who costs the same but is expected to do twice the work because an algorithm might help. And when productivity doesn't magically double, the title will be quietly deleted, and the person will be back to plain old 'Radiograph Technician'—if they're lucky. The pyramid scheme continues.