Karpathy’s Chilling Visualization Shows Which Jobs AI Could Replace

Project Overview

karpathy/jobs is an interactive visualization that quantifies AI‑replacement risk for every occupation listed in the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Data Collection and Scoring Method

All 342 occupations from the BLS dataset were scraped.

Each occupation description was submitted to the Gemini Flash large language model.

The model returned a numeric exposure score from 0 (no exposure) to 10 (maximum exposure).

Scores were aggregated with a weight proportional to total employment to compute a weighted average.

The resulting scores are displayed as a hierarchical tree diagram.

Key Results

Weighted average score: 4.9 / 10.

Software engineer: 8‑9 / 10, indicating high exposure despite the technical nature of the role.

Transcriptionist: 10 / 10, the highest possible exposure.

Roofer: 0‑1 / 10, indicating current safety from AI automation.

Open‑source Artifacts

All code and data are publicly available at https://karpathy.ai/jobs, with the underlying BLS data taken directly from the Occupational Outlook Handbook.

Related Context

The findings align with a long‑standing observation that occupations whose core activity is “sitting in front of a screen processing information” are prone to automation. For additional perspective, see Anthropic’s AI‑employment impact report (https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s?__biz=MzA5MTIxNTY4MQ==∣=2461158737&idx=1&sn=2317b702b63165021280e46e8d2155f9&scene=21#wechat_redirect).