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AI Risk by Industry: 30 Industries Ranked by Average Exposure

Average AI automation risk for all 30 industries in our dataset, ranked, with job counts and links to each industry deep-dive.

September 8, 2026AI risk by industryautomation rankingindustry analysis

We aggregated task-level AI exposure scores across every job in our dataset, by industry. Each industry's rank is the average exposure across all analyzed jobs in it - click through for the full job-by-job breakdown.

#	Industry	Jobs	Avg AI Risk	High-risk (70%+)	Safe (under 30%)
1	Administrative	8	79%	6	0
2	Support	11	69%	5	0
3	Finance	27	68%	15	0
4	Manufacturing	12	63%	6	2
5	Marketing	15	62%	9	1
6	Logistics	13	62%	5	0
7	Human Resources	12	57%	4	0
8	Retail	13	57%	4	1
9	Government	13	55%	4	1
10	Media	8	53%	1	0
11	Language	8	53%	3	1
12	Sales	9	53%	2	1
13	Technology	47	48%	4	6
14	Legal	17	46%	4	3
15	Science	24	46%	0	0
16	Agriculture	9	44%	0	0
17	Design	10	43%	0	2
18	Engineering	30	42%	0	4
19	Military	8	42%	0	1
20	Transportation	14	40%	1	5
21	Education	13	40%	2	5
22	Sports	9	38%	0	3
23	Food Service	13	35%	1	7
24	Management	12	34%	0	4
25	Creative	36	30%	0	19
26	Healthcare	57	28%	3	38
27	Public Safety	11	28%	0	6
28	Health & Wellness	10	24%	0	6
29	Trades	52	23%	0	36
30	Social Services	14	21%	0	12

Industry averages hide the task story: every industry contains both exposed and protected roles. That's why we score tasks, not titles. See the methodology, and the full job ranking for the job-level view.