AI will affect more than half of all U.S. jobs, analysis finds

MoneyWatch AI will affect more than half of all U.S. jobs, analysis finds .chip { background-image: url('/fly/bundles/cbsnewscore/images/chip-bgd/chip-bgd-moneywatch.jpg'); } By Megan Cerullo Megan Cerullo Reporter, MoneyWatch Megan Cerullo is a New York-based reporter for CBS MoneyWatch covering small business, workplace, health care, consumer spending and personal finance topics. She regularly appears on CBS News 24/7 to discuss her reporting. Read Full Bio Megan Cerullo April 7, 2026 / 4:42 PM EDT / CBS News Add CBS News on Google Artificial intelligence will dramatically change the nature of work, but stop short of replacing most employees, according to a recent analysis.Over the next three years, AI will "reshape" between 50% and 55% of U.S. jobs, Boston Consulting Group researchers estimated. "What people do in these jobs will be different, even if the job is still there," BCG managing director and senior partner Matthew Kropp told CBS News. At the same time, many jobs will be lost. BCG projects that 10% to 15% of U.S. jobs could be replaced by AI over the next five years. "There's almost a knee-jerk reaction — we'll cut jobs and have layoffs. It's indiscriminate, and that's harmful for society because we need people to have jobs, but also harmful for companies themselves," he said. "Yes, some will go away, but many jobs you'll be re-skilling, getting people to work in a different way, and you have to expend effort to do that."Better for society — and businessAs a result, Kropp urges business leaders to focus on how AI can augment workers' capabilities rather than replace them. "We should focus on re-skilling, and making sure people doing it are moving to other areas in which jobs will be fine," Kropp added.  Tapping government labor data, Boston Consulting Group examined tasks associated with 1,500 jobs to assess which jobs are most suited to augmentation or replacement by AI. "In some cases, the result will be t...