AI and robots take 30% of routine work, parts of every job.

I made this call about 15 years ago, and I still stand by it. By 2030, robots, automation, and AI will take over roughly 30% of all repetitive, routine work across white-collar and blue-collar roles. Crucially, this means parts of jobs, not just entire jobs.

In 2026 and 2027, AI, robots, humanoids, and autonomous machines are coming for 10 job categories. Hard.

Which 10 job categories are most at risk? Data-entry clerks, call-center agents, bookkeepers and payroll staff, administrative assistants, cashiers and bank tellers, junior researchers and analysts, programmers and software testers, repetitive factory workers, warehouse and packaging workers, drivers and delivery couriers.

Routine, repetitive, predictable: those tasks go first. Some are already automated at scale. The rest get hit before 2030.

So stop asking which jobs AI can do. The question is how much human work a business will still pay for. If a robot can learn your job in a week, your job is already at risk.

In the February 2026 issue of Math Man Magazine, I predicted how AI will demolish consulting firms, software and SaaS companies, and marketing and media agencies.

The mainstream media says AI destroys all jobs, because fear sells clicks. Some Big Tech CEOs promise a jobs paradise; others warn of a bloodbath. Both are selling something.

I am not a Big Tech CEO pushing my stock price. I have no stock to pump and no panic to sell. The truth? 30% of routine work gets automated. The rest gets redesigned.

What Big Tech CEOs will never tell you? In the US and Europe, employers face high labor and social insurance costs. Replacing staff with AI can indeed save tremendous staff costs. But do not underestimate the costs of AI subscriptions, credits, and tokens.

Now consider parts of Africa, Latin America, and Asia, where salaries can be a fraction of Western salaries. In these regions, a full-timer might make $800-1,200 per month, which may be much less than the cost of AI subscriptions and tokens.

This move is something to fear. Universal Basic Income (UBI) will not solve the social deconstruction of unemployed people, depending on their governments. But hey, Big Tech CEOs with a God complex who lack empathy or compassion? They will tell you, UBI.

From my mission tech for good? Let the machines take the repetitive, heavy, dirty, and dangerous work. Humans move up to doing more meaningful, social, and creative work. Like hospitality, and customer-centric jobs.

Read my prediction card: AI Token Bait.