Mapping How Artificial Intelligence May Transform Jobs and Skills

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how work is performed across industries. Some tasks may be automated; others augmented, and entirely new roles may emerge. Understanding where and how these changes may occur is essential for policymakers, educators, businesses, and workforce organizations preparing for the future of work.

The AI Impact Atlas (AIIA) is an interactive decision-support dashboard that helps users explore how artificial intelligence capabilities intersect with occupational tasks, skills, and workforce patterns across industries and regions. By combining occupational data, AI capability modeling, and workforce statistics, the platform provides a transparent and data-driven view of how AI may influence the labor market.

WHY THIS MATTERS

Preparing for the Future of Work

Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, but its effects on jobs and skills will not be uniform. Some occupations may experience significant task automation, while others may benefit from AI-enabled productivity and new forms of collaboration between people and machines.

Understanding these dynamics requires tools that move beyond broad predictions and instead examine how AI capabilities interact with specific AI-heavy occupations.

The AI Impact Atlas was developed to help researchers, policymakers, and industry leaders explore questions such as:

• How fast might certain cities, counties, or states feel the impact of AI – both in terms of lower hiring rates due to AI augmentation and in worker task replacement by AI?
• Which regions are likely to be most significantly impacted in the next 2-5 years and in which occupations?  
• How will these changes affect workers at different stages in their careers?  How might workforce development policies and programs be best tailored to help these impacted workers in the timeframe needed?
• Where might we see the growth of new jobs, and do we have adequate training or re-skilling programs in place?

By making these insights accessible through interactive visualizations, the platform helps decision-makers better understand potential workforce shifts and plan for a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

THE DASHBOARD

Interactive Workforce Insights

The AI Impact Atlas allows users to explore potential workforce impacts of AI across occupations, industries, and geographic regions through a set of interactive visualizations.

Built as a scenario analysis tool, AIIA models potential local and regional AI workforce impacts and any resulting cascading economic effects. By enabling users to examine a range of possible futures, it provides a transparent and accessible way to explore the relationship between artificial intelligence and the labor market.

As an evolving research effort, AIIA will continue to be refined as new data sources, methodologies, and AI adoption scenarios emerge. The models, assumptions, and results presented here are intended to evolve alongside advances in both AI technologies and workforce research.

Rather than offering definitive predictions, AIIA provides a transparent, data-driven perspective that can serve as one input among many for researchers, policymakers, industry leaders, and workforce planners. Results should be interpreted alongside other economic, technological, and workforce indicators to support analysis, discussion, and informed decision-making.

Research Leads: Madhav Marathe, Kemi Jona, and Anil Vullikanti

More information: [email protected]