AI Jobs: What's Actually Sticking?

3 Years in, GenAI Has Created Fewer New Roles Than Expected Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • December 30, 2025

Three years after ChatGPT's public debut in November 2022, the promised artificial intelligence job revolution has arrived. It's just not what anyone anticipated.

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Research from Indeed's Hiring Lab, the research arm of the job posting platform, shows that demand for AI fluency - the ability to use and manage AI tools - jumped nearly sevenfold in two years.

McKinsey Global Institute, the research arm of McKinsey & Company, found that about eight million people in the United States work in occupations where job postings already call for at least one AI-related skill.

But within those numbers are unexpected outcomes. Organizations initially reacted to the chatbot's debut by rushing to hire prompt engineers - specialists tasked with crafting text instructions that ...