The companion page to this site's displacement index. Everything below is the same exercise run in the opposite direction: not what AI is taking, but what it is measurably creating — which roles, what they pay, where the work physically sits, and which doors are actually open to someone standing outside them. Same rule as the rest of the site: every figure carries its source, and where a source gives only a direction and no number, the row says so.
Twenty-four roles with measurable demand behind them. Door is how hard it is to get in — open means no degree gate and a real entry path, mid means a few years or a retrainable adjacent skill, steep means licensure or a decade. It is deliberately not a measure of how hard the job is. Filter by family, or sort by door to find what is reachable from where you already stand.
| Role | Door | Growth | Pay | Why it exists |
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Not renamed versions of old work — categories brought into being by the technology itself. The common thread is worth noticing: almost all of them are oversight roles. When producing the output gets cheap, the scarce job becomes deciding whether the output is any good.
The AI build-out is not happening in San Francisco. Power and land pick the locations now, which has put the densest hiring in metros with no prior claim to being tech towns. In these places the share of postings coming from the largest tech employers went from under 2% in mid-2025 to over 10%.
Read against the displacement index, not instead of it. Several of these start deliberately from the occupations that page rates most at risk.
Live prices on the companies whose capital spending is paying for the hiring above — chips, power, cooling, data-centre landlords and the contractors who build them. When this complex stops going up, the technician hiring is the first thing that stops with it. That is the honest link between this page and the risk on the other one. Not investment advice.
| Name | YTD | Rel S&P | 1yr | Trend | What it supplies |
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The same thirty-four-feed aggregator that drives the displacement page, filtered to hiring, labour-market and research stories rather than cuts. Refreshes on load and every ten minutes.
Five things that would make this page dishonest if they were left off it.
Growth-side sources first, then the shared registry used across both pages.
