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\u201cEveryone thought we were crazy,\u201d said Ollie O\u2019Donoghue, the firm\u2019s head of research, speaking at Fortune\u2019s<\/em> COO Summit in Scottsdale, Arizona. But turns out, they weren\u2019t crazy enough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Three years later, O\u2019Donoghue and his colleague Sushant Warikoo, chief business officer of AI, presented data showing that 93% of jobs are already AI-capable \u2014 and 30% are now facing existential change. The 2032 threshold arrived in 2026.<\/p>\n

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Even the plumber or electrician, those blue-collar careers recently advertised as AI-proof, aren\u2019t found to be so in Cognizant\u2019s analysis. \u201cNobody\u2019s safe,\u201d O\u2019Donoghue said.<\/p>\n

Plumbers, for example, will still be needed to physically repair pipes, but much of the work surrounding the job\u2014from diagnosis to paperwork\u2014could increasingly be reshaped by AI.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll still need someone to turn the wrench, no doubt, but the actual process of plumbing and the value that\u2019s added will change a little bit,\u201d O\u2019Donoghue added. \u201cOne of the things is the massive integration of AI into manual work\u2014and as we start exploring things like physical AI, it makes things even more comp<\/p>\n

The plumber remains a useful example of why even careers considered \u201cAI-proof\u201d may not be immune. The physical work itself may remain human, but many surrounding tasks could increasingly be automated or AI-assisted.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHowever, a multimodal reasoning agent today could notice a damp patch on a wall, infer a leaking joint, draft a repair plan and even generate an invoice or parts list,\u201d the report stated. \u201cThe plumber still fixes the pipe, but the inspection, diagnosis and supportive actions that lead up to or follow it can increasingly be assisted by AI.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even with AI-driven layoffs, more jobs are on the horizon, according to Cognizant exec<\/h2>\n

While companies like Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon have cited AI-driven efficiencies as part of recent workforce reductions, not everyone sees the technology as a net negative for jobs.<\/p>\n

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Warikoo argued that artificial intelligence is more likely to reshape work than eliminate it altogether\u2014creating entirely new opportunities in the process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe believe that it\u2019s going to create and expose new value pools that are not visible to us,\u201d Warikoo said in conversation with Fortune\u2019s<\/em> Kristin Stoller. \u201cThis is the underdraft of the market. And when that happens, it creates a lot more social economic development\u2013that creates new jobs, new roles in the market.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The pace of those new opportunities may not come as quickly as some workers hope. But, Warikoo argued, job creation will stem from people and businesses learning how to adapt to technological change and reimagine how work gets done.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 80% left comes from the misprocessed reimagination and the change management that\u2019s needed for an enterprise to truly adopt the technology. This is a big change. It\u2019s an operating model change.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words, AI is not just changing what people do at work\u2014it\u2019s reshaping how organizations function, how employees collaborate, and how businesses are built.<\/p>\n

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