Austin ranks No. 6 for AI job displacement risk, new study shows [Video]

AUSTIN, Texas — A new study ranks Austin as the sixth-highest city in the U.S. for artificial intelligence (AI) job displacement.

The study, conducted by (un)Common Logic, says that just over 10% of all workers in Austin are at risk of AI-related automation. That’s roughly 126,000 workers in the Austin area.

The jobs facing the highest risk of being done by AI are budget analysts, loan officers, accountants, insurance sales agents and paralegals. The study said these jobs face high AI exposure as well as high risk of automation because their tasks and knowledge can be more easily learned and replicated by AI systems. These roles account for an estimate 9% of all workers nationally, the study said.

Conversely, workers who face both low AI exposure and low risk of automation include “highly …