What Exactly Are These New AI Jobs, Anyway? | Shimmy Says Ep. 40
Shimmy Says
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08-Jan-2026
AI will create more jobs than it eliminates.” We hear this line all the time. It sounds reassuring. And it is often where the conversation stops. In today’s Shimmy Says, Alan Shimel takes the conversation further: what exactly are these new AI jobs, and what do they actually require? The episode explores how #AI is changing developer roles, reshaping #cybersecurity, augmenting blue-collar work, expanding creative careers, and opening entirely new frontiers, including ones we are not used to thinking about yet.
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