The term “artificial intelligence” was created by Dartmouth College while studying how to make machines able to think. During the 1980s and 90s, citizens started to gain access to personal computers. Almost a decade later, AI has gotten smarter and usage has become more frequent in everyday human resources, according to hrci.org.
Some believe AI taking over jobs will increase the efficiency of work. Allowing robots to handle stocking and predicting stock levels may speed the process up. Amazon has taken this into account and cut people to make way for robots. When AI takes over jobs, it can let humans take over the social and creative parts of the job. For example, a robot could handle stocking while people check out customers in a store, according to commerce.nc.gov.
Some of the jobs most at risk are accountants, researchers and warehouse workers. People are using AI for these jobs because they think that it can manage data better. Salesperson jobs are also at risk because almost everything they are in charge of can be done online. With these changes, there could be up to 65% of retail jobs lost to AI by 2026, according to nexford.edu.
AI has challenges including the amount of energy it consumes. It requires large data centers to store data, using additional energy for lighting, ventilation and more. They also cause an increase in carbon when more are made. Too much carbon dioxide can lead to deaths or run animals out of their habitat they thrive in, according to forbes.com.
Trump issued an executive order on July 23, 2025 that makes it faster to get land for data centers. He is allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate the clean air act to help with the building of data centers. They are using both federal and non-federal land to build on, according to whitehouse.com.
Getting labor for data centers is another problem they are facing. They are currently facing a shortage of workers. Some workers are being taken from their current jobs and placed into data centers, construction, utilities and more, according to spectrum.ieee.org.
University of Oxford experts researched how AI can be used as a tool instead of a disruption. In their studies, they have concluded 39% of skills needed in today’s job market will likely be changed by 2030, according to onlinedegrees.sandiego.edu.
