According to a recent report from the AI-Enabled ICT Workforce Consortium, 92% of IT jobs will be transformed by AI to a moderate or high degree. But when it comes to senior-level jobs, 100% will see moderate transformation. And when it comes to business and management IT jobs, 63% were classified as “high transformation” due to AI. And online education company Pluralsight conducted a survey of IT professionals in the US and UK and found that 74% worried AI tools will make many of their daily skills obsolete.
“Generative AI does have the ability to replace CIOs who don’t embrace the innovative shifts coming for companies,” says Tim Crawford, a former CIO himself and now a CIO strategic advisor at AVOA, a technology consultancy. For the rest, gen AI will greatly augment the power and value of the role of the CIO, he says.
According to the consortium’s report, AI has the potential to revolutionize these roles by facilitating more efficient decision-making through data-driven insights. And that applies to jobs at the very highest level. In late 2023, an edX survey of 800 C-suite executives showed that more than half thought executive leadership or C-suite roles will be partly or completely replaced by AI. Nine of out 10 also said at least some of their job could be automated by AI, and nearly half said most or all of their job could be completely replaced by AI.
