AI Will Transform Every IT Job by 2030: What This Means for Your Career

Chief information officers (CIOs) expect that all IT-related work will involve artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030, according to Gartner, highlighting the technology's transformative impact on the workforce.

In a Gartner poll of more than 700 CIOs, respondents predicted that 0% of IT work would be performed by humans alone, without AI, by 2030. Instead, they expect 75% of IT work to be carried out by humans augmented by AI, while the remaining 25% will be done by AI alone.

"AI is not about job loss. It's about workforce transformation," said Daryl Plummer, VP, Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Fellow and Chief of AI Research for the Gartner High Tech Leaders and Providers practice.

"CIOs should start transforming their workforces by restraining new hiring (especially for roles involving low-complexity tasks) and by repositioning talent to new business areas that generate revenue."

According to Gartner, restraining hiring will help enhance productivity and optimise costs, especially after a separate report found that 72% of CIOs observed their organisations are breaking even or are losing money on AI investments.

New Skills from AI

Gartner stressed that more work needs to be done in AI implementation, including getting employees to work with AI in radically new ways that will need a new set of skills.

"AI will make some skills, such as summarisation, information retrieval and translation, less important, as AI is ready to automate or augment these tasks," said Alicia Mullery, VP Analyst at Gartner.

"But AI also creates a need for entirely new skills. These AI skills are fundamentally different from most skills. Where skills were traditionally about doing tasks better, AI skills are about making you better — a better motivator, a better thinker and a better communicator."