AI Career Threat Index
How exposed is your job to AI? 300 professions scored on an open rubric — four published sub-scores per role, including exposure to autonomous agents. Updated quarterly. MIT licensed.
▶ Explore all 300 roles interactively · Winners & Losers this quarter · Methodology · Ask it through your AI assistant (MCP)
What this is
The AI Career Threat Index scores 300 US professions on AI displacement risk, 0–100. Unlike a single black-box number, every score decomposes into four published sub-scores with written rationales:
combined by an open formula (task automation sets the ceiling; maturity and adoption determine how much is realized; agentic exposure adds forward pressure):
score = taskAutomation × (0.45 + 0.30·toolMaturity/100 + 0.25·adoption/100) + 0.10·agenticExposure
The agenticExposure factor is, to our knowledge, the first published per-occupation
scoring of exposure to autonomous agents specifically — the thing that changed
between 2024's copilots and 2026's agent deployments.
Honesty note: scores are structured editorial estimates made against a published rubric with named anchors and calibration examples — informed by O*NET task lists, BLS OES data, and public adoption research. They are not measurements, and we don't claim otherwise. Every input is in this repo; if you disagree with a sub-score, open an issue and argue with the rationale — that's the point of publishing them.
Get the data
git clone https://github.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index.git
# or grab the files directly:
curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index/main/data/ai-career-threat-index.json
curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index/main/data/ai-career-threat-index.csv
curl -LO https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index/main/data/soc-crosswalk.csv
The crosswalk means any US occupation — even ones we don't score directly — resolves to a scored neighbor with a stated match quality.
Use it in code
Python
import requests
data = requests.get("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index/main/data/ai-career-threat-index.json").json()
# Roles most exposed to autonomous agents specifically
hot = sorted(data["roles"], key=lambda r: -r["subscores"]["agenticExposure"])[:10]
for r in hot:
print(f'{r["title"]:35} agentic={r["subscores"]["agenticExposure"]} overall={r["score"]}')
JavaScript
const url = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index/main/data/ai-career-threat-index.json";
const data = await fetch(url).then(r => r.json());
const rising = data.roles.filter(r => r.score - (r.historicalScores["Q2 2026"] ?? r.score) >= 3);
R
roles <- read.csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index/main/data/ai-career-threat-index.csv")
cor(roles$score, (roles$salary_low_usd + roles$salary_high_usd) / 2)
More in examples/.
Ask it through your AI assistant
The repo ships a zero-dependency MCP server —
threat-index-mcp on npm — so Claude
(or any MCP client) can query the dataset directly:
claude mcp add threat-index -- npx -y threat-index-mcp
Then ask: "Compare paralegal, bookkeeper, and welder — which is most exposed to autonomous agents, and what should each build to defend?"
Schema (v2026.3)
Each role record:
CSV columns are a flat projection; v2026.3 columns were appended after the v2026.2 set, so existing consumers keep working. Scores within 5 points of a band boundary may retain their prior band across quarterly reviews (stability rule).
Methodology
Methodology v2 (Q3 2026 onward) is fully specified in pipeline/RUBRIC.md:
factor definitions, scoring anchors, calibration examples, the formula, band
hysteresis, salary anchoring, and sources. The dataset regenerates deterministically
from per-role source files:
python3 pipeline/score.py # role sources -> JSON + CSV + crosswalk + quarterly report
python3 pipeline/generate_svgs.py # README charts
pytest tests/ # 30+ integrity checks (CI runs these on every push)
Historical quarters (Q1 2025 – Q2 2026) were published under methodology v1 (50/30/20 weighted composite, no agentic factor) and are retained as published. Quarterly moves larger than ±8 points require a stated restatement reason — see the quarterly report.
Cite it
The MeritForge Team (2026). AI Career Threat Index v2026.3.
https://github.com/Jott2121/ai-career-threat-index (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.21227026)
See CITATION.cff for BibTeX and more formats. When citing in
editorial content, a link to this repo or the
interactive explorer is appreciated.
Contributing
Disagree with a score? The sub-scores and rationales are published precisely so you can attack them: open an issue naming the role, the factor, and the evidence. Better adoption data for an industry is especially welcome. Accepted corrections land in the next quarterly review with attribution.
About
Maintained by Jeff Otterson / The MeritForge Team. The interactive tool also lives at meritforgeai.com.
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