AI is causing anxiety about the future of the workforce. But are there AI-proof jobs?

By Sally Helm

Published September 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM MDT

Can we know which jobs are more or less likely to be "taken" by artificial intelligence? Planet Money looks into what jobs might be immune from a robot takeover.

Sally Helm

Sally Helm reports and produces for Planet Money. She has covered wildfire investigation in California, Islamic Finance in Michigan, the mystery of declining productivity growth, and holograms. Helm is a graduate of the Transom Story Workshop and of Yale University. Before coming to work at NPR, she helped start an after-school creative writing program in Sitka, Alaska. She is originally from Los Angeles, California.