Exposed The task profile has little on the defensive side of the ledger.
Interpreters and translators
Ranked the single most AI-affected occupation in Microsoft's usage data.
- Horizon
- 2024–2025
- Protection from automation
- Weakly protected · our reading
The methodological caveat belongs here, because it is the one the researchers themselves insist on. An applicability score measures overlap between AI capability and the activities a job contains. It is not a headcount forecast — the Microsoft authors point out that historical automation has sometimes raised employment in affected sectors, and that bank tellers survived ATMs by changing what the job contained.GeekWire 2025
Read this entry as “the text half of translation is gone”, not “no one will interpret a court hearing”.
What holds it up
- Long-form text translation is a solved problem for current models
- The work product is text, and text is what the machine produces