How at Risk Is Your Job from AI? An Ironic Journey Through Career Uncertainty

There’s something both deeply unsettling and oddly poetic about asking an AI to assess whether your job is at risk of being replaced by AI. It’s a bit like asking a bike salesperson if you need a new bike. Or like asking your mountain bike if that muddy, root-filled line is totally safe (it’s always going to say yes, right before it sends you over the bars). Yet, here we are. Because, ironically, it actually makes sense.

After recently turning down a relocation opportunity with adidas in Amsterdam, I found myself at a bit of a crossroads. As someone who has spent years crafting stories, building content strategies, and championing brands in the sports marketing tech world, I couldn’t help but wonder: What does the future hold for roles like mine?

A mountain biker ponders the shadow of his former self.

The AI Reality Check: No Chicken Lines

It was one of those classic, introspective moments. The kind that usually hits me somewhere on a long uphill, where I do most of my thinking and questioning. I wondered how the landscape is changing, not just for me but for anyone who works at the intersection of creativity and technology. Is AI just another shiny tool in our digital toolbox? Or is it poised to completely gut our career paths?

Between the pedal strokes and the existential dread that regularly characterize my riding, I realized something: AI isn’t just coming for the mundane, repetitive tasks. It’s inching closer to the creative stuff. As I’ve been searching for new roles and plotting my next career move, it’s become clear that integrating AI into whatever comes next isn’t just an option: it’s the mandatory feature we all need to be confident to hit sooner or later if we want to progress.

Actual footage of my new riding buddy absolutely sending it. Bro don’t even need a MIPS helment.

Why Ask AI if AI Will Take Your Job?

It’s a weirdly fitting question when you think about it. Who better to judge how at risk your role is from AI than AI itself? Sure, there’s the whole potential bias issue. It’s a bit like your partner asking you if you really need that new carbon crankset. They know the answer is always yes, even though you’ve already got three perfectly good ones collecting dust in the garage (for the next build, of course).

Yet, here we are. Because, ironically, it actually makes sense. Who better to predict the next potential crash than the very thing that might cause it?

The AI-Risk Assessment: Built for the Ironically Self-Aware

So, I did the most logical (or possibly masochistic) thing: I created a ChatGPT prompt to help people like me, teetering between creative leadership and digital automation (I would normally set that dependent clause off with double em dashes, but AI has taken those from me too), figure out just how at risk we are. It’s like a fortune teller, but instead of vague predictions about love or money, it just straight-up tells you how close you are to career extinction.

The prompt guides you through a series of questions about your role, your skills, your tech exposure, and your adaptability. In the end, it delivers a score that tells you whether you’re in the safe zone or standing on the edge of the AI abyss. To soften the blow, it also gives you a few practical suggestions on how to pivot, upskill, or otherwise try and avoid total obsolescence.

Try the AI-Risk Assessment Yourself

Here’s the prompt you can copy and use in ChatGPT or your AI of choice (only tested with Chat GPT 4o though):

You are an AI-powered career risk assessor. I’ll answer your questions, and you’ll calculate an AI-Risk Score (0–100) and give me personalized next-step suggestions.

1. Ask me for “Section A: About You” info

• Job title (text)
• Industry/sector (text)
• Years in current role (choose: 0–2, 3–5, 6–10, 11–20, 20+)
• Organisation size (choose: <50, data-preserve-html-node="true" 50–249, 250–999, 1 000–9 999, 10 000+)

2. Ask me for “Section B: What You Actually Do”

• Allocate 100% of your typical work-week across these 8 categories.

1. Data entry / record keeping

2. Repetitive admin

3. Information synthesis

4. Generative content

5. Expert judgment

6. Physical/manual tasks

7. Client/stakeholder interaction

8. Leadership/strategy/decision-making

9. Ask me for “Section C: Tech & AI Exposure”

• Tools used weekly (select any: ChatGPT/Gemini/Claude; Midjourney/DALL-E/Firefly; Zapier/Power Automate; UiPath/Blue Prism; Predictive analytics/ML; None)
• Employer’s AI adoption roadmap
• Does your role involve building/fine-tuning AI?
• What % of routine tasks have been automated?
• Feeling about AI’s impact (1=“AI frees me” to 5=“AI replaces me”)

4. Ask me for “Section D: Adaptability & Learning”

• Hours per month in professional learning
• Top learning format
• Skill area you’re prioritizing next
• Comfort with new software (1-5 scale)

5. Calculate my AI-Risk Score

• Task-mix (70%): multiply each % by risk factors
• Tech exposure adjustment (–10 to +5)
• Adaptability bonus (–5 to 0)

6. Output:

• AI-Risk Score and Band (Low=0–34, Moderate=35–64, High=65–100)
• One-sentence summary highlighting highest-risk task bucket
• 3–5 tailored next-step suggestions

Shredding the Desert of the Real

Why You Should Give It a Shot

Even if your role feels secure today, it’s important to know where the cracks might form. I like to think of it like the last 5km of a bike race: everyone’s hurting, but you just need to be smart and pedal through it harder than the other racers. And while it feels a bit weird to ask AI to predict whether it’s about to take your job, it also feels practical. Like taking your bike to the shop to ask the mechanic how good your home repair job is. They’ll tell you how they can fix whatever mess you’ve created.

Maybe your score will confirm that you’re untouchable, one of the chosen few whose skills can’t be mimicked by algorithms. Or maybe it will tell you to invest a bit more in upskilling before the robot revolution fully kicks in. Either way, it’s a small dose of reality and a reminder that if you’re not actively preparing for change, your job might be the thing that changes whether you’re ready or not.