New Delhi, April 28 -- Most people have long believed that automation would first affect lower-skilled, lower-paid roles. The common assumption was that factory work, delivery services and routine manual jobs would be the earliest to disappear.

However, Anthropic's March 2026 Labor Market Impacts Report points to a very different reality. The professionals currently most exposed to artificial intelligence are those with higher education, significant experience and above-average earnings, the report shows.

The findings in this report turn conventional thinking upside down. There's a clear tension here: the qualifications and expertise that once helped secure a stable career may now be the very factors placing workers at greater risk of d...