Nett New Job Roles: Year-by-Year from AI Disruption to Post-AGI Purpose

2025–2027: The Trust & Transition Wave

2025 – AI Explainability Officers, Synthetic Media Curators, Digital Twin Designers.

2026 – Carbon Transition Brokers (trading stranded assets vs renewables), Bias Mitigation Auditors, Prompt Engineering Leads.

2027 – Agentic Workflow Orchestrators (supervising fleets of AI agents), AI Safety Evangelists, Neuro-UX Researchers (designing interfaces for brain-AI interactions).

2028–2030: Scale, Specialisation & Scarcity

2028 – Climate Resilience Architects, Civic Data Trust Managers, HX Engineers (measuring human experience equity across CX+EX).

2029 – Scarcity Supply Managers (rare earths, semiconductors, water rights), AI–Energy Synergy Planners (optimising grids with AI demand balancing).

2030 – Synthetic Biology Designers (food and medicine), Global AI Arbitration Specialists (mediating cross-border AI disputes), AI–Creativity Co-Producers (co-authorship roles in media, design, law).

2031–2035: The Pre-AGI Reconfiguration

2031 – Care Integrators (human + robot + biotech care), Food System Genomicists, Supply Chain Immunologists (stress testing value chains for shocks).

2032 – Civic Simulation Designers (participatory governance twins), Behavioural Immersion Architects (ethical simulation/game designers).

2033 – Planetary Risk Brokers (multi-risk underwriting for climate, cyber, orbital debris), Ethical AI Trustees.

2034 – Memory Preservation Designers (curating collective memory with AI archivists), Synthetic Companion Managers (responsible human-AI emotional systems).

2035 – AGI Alignment Stewards (embedding ethics in proto-AGI), Meaning Auditors (tracking whether time-use aligns with societal well-being).

2036–2040: AGI Inflection & The Meaning Economy

2036 – Meaning Brokers (guiding post-labour purpose), Digital Afterlife Curators (managing legacy identities).

2037 – Post-Scarcity Planners (resource reallocation in abundance zones), HX Equity Advocates (ensuring fair experience access).

2038 – Synthetic Experience Directors (curating immersive realities for civic, spiritual, or leisure growth).

2039 – Planetary Commons Stewards (governing shared climate, oceans, orbital space).

2040 – Collective Intelligence Curators (weaving human, AGI, and swarm insights into new knowledge systems).

2041–2050: Divergence – Commonwealth vs Fortress

2041 – Ethical Terraforming Engineers (Commonwealth) vs Simulation Censors (Fortress).

2042 – Galactic Cartographers (mapping new worlds) vs Digital Feudal Overseers (algorithmic control of societies).

2043 – Astro-Ethicists (moral debates on colonisation) vs Information Gatekeepers (managing scarcity through data).

2044 – Knowledge Stewards (curating collective truth) vs Narrative Controllers (propaganda role in closed states).

2045 – AGI Diplomats (mediating human–AGI relations globally) vs AGI Warlords’ Advisors.

2046 – Cultural Continuity Designers (preserving human ritual in post-AGI societies).

2047 – Cosmic Rights Advocates (ensuring rights of future AI and alien life). 2048 – Exploration Guild Masters (leading exploration as vocation in abundance).

2049 – AI–Human Co-Sovereigns (shared governance councils).

2050 – Purpose Architects (final evolution: designing rituals of meaning beyond roles).

Patterns Across the Horizon

2025–2030: Roles emerge as bridges—managing disruption, risk, and trust. 2031–2035: Roles pivot to integration—embedding AI into domains of human need.

2036–2040: Roles shift towards meaning—curation of experience, stewardship of commons. 2041–2050: Roles fragment into Commonwealth (abundance, exploration, stewardship) vs Fortress (control, scarcity, manufactured dependence).