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What Career Paths Will Use AI?

If you're new here, I'm Aidan Cramer, CEO of AIApply, the platform helping thousands of people navigate job hunting and career growth with AI as their edge. I’m also the guy behind this newsletter.

Every week, I write to make the future feel a little less overwhelming and a lot more actionable. Sometimes that means decoding new AI tools. Sometimes it means showing you how to use them in your career. And sometimes, like today, it means looking five years ahead and asking:

Where is this all going? And how do you ride the wave instead of getting crushed by it?

Let’s talk about career paths.

Whether you’re graduating, pivoting, or just quietly watching the market, you should know which roles are evolving the fastest with AI.

And more importantly, how to take advantage of it before job boards and bootcamps catch up.

The Jobs That’ll Be Transformed by AI

Here’s a take I haven’t seen enough people talk about:

You don’t need to work in AI to have an AI-powered career.

In fact, the biggest leverage is going to people who don’t sit inside a lab at OpenAI.

The ones who can make fast decisions, create clean processes, and use tools without needing a tutorial every five minutes.

🔧 1. Ops & BizOps

Business operations people are turning into mini CTOs overnight.

What used to be “optimize this process in Excel” is now:

• Build an Airtable + Zapier + Claude flow to automate onboarding

• Use GPT agents to QA vendor invoices and flag outliers

• Create dashboards that actually make sense, using natural language queries

They’re still ops jobs, just 10x faster and more impactful because AI is handling the glue work.

🧠 If you can think clearly and ask good questions, AI will take care of the technical part.

✍️ 2. Content & Comms

There’s the generic stuff: mass newsletters, SEO copy, low-effort social posts.

Then there’s what I call synthetic supercreators, the ones using AI to:

• Run 100 headline tests in 10 minutes

• Map emotional tone to audience segments

• Turn one good idea into 20 formats (longform, shortform, carousel, video script, etc.)

This camp is going to own the brand reach.

Even better: You don’t need to be an influencer. You just need to know how to think like one, and get AI to do the tedious part.

📊 3. Analysts

Data analysts who only report on what happened are being replaced.

But analysts who can interrogate models to run simulations, test outcomes, and explain it all in plain English are about to print offers.

AI isn’t just about crunching data. It’s about turning insight into action faster than the other guy.

So if you’re even remotely good at systems thinking, this is your opening.

🧠 4. Support & Customer Success

This one might surprise you.

Support used to be reactive. But now, teams are using AI to:

• Preempt tickets with AI-powered alerts

• Auto-write personalized responses based on tone + context

• Train support agents faster with AI-assisted coaching

It's no longer just about solving problems—it’s about designing systems that make problems disappear.

If you're empathetic and process-oriented, this could be your lane.

So… What Do You Do With This?

The truth is, most people won’t pivot fast enough.

They’ll wait for schools, employers, or gurus to tell them which roles are “hot.” By then, it’s too late.

Here’s what I’d do instead:

1. Pick a lane. Find a role you can get obsessed with—ops, content, data, support. Chase your curiosity.

2. Learn the tools. Not all of them. Just enough to solve problems in your lane. (You only need a hammer if you have nails.)

3. Build a project. Use it to do something. Automate part of your job. Launch a side gig. Help a friend’s business.

4. Get loud. Document it. Share wins. Even tiny ones. It’s how opportunities find you.

I’ll leave you with this:

The AI wave isn’t coming for one kind of job. It’s coming for every job.

But that’s not a threat, it’s a shortcut. For people who move early.

So don’t wait for the world to figure out what to do with AI.

Use it to make yourself impossible to ignore.

Until next week,
—Aidan

This Week in AI:

No jargon, no filler—just the biggest AI developments worth knowing right now. Perfect for quick industry insights, so you can skip the buzzwords and get straight to the good stuff. Let’s dive into this week’s AI shake-ups, just as promised:

We’ve got Apple chasing a hot AI search startup, SoftBank pitching a trillion-dollar chip hub to the U.S. government, and leaked court docs revealing OpenAI’s first real step into consumer hardware.

What do they all have in common? They’re not just about technology.

They’re about control of attention, of infrastructure, and of the future of AI.

Let’s break it down.

In This Issue:

• OpenAI’s AI Device With Jony Ive: Leaked docs reveal hardware plans. (link)

• SoftBank’s $1T AI Chip Hub Pitch: A moonshot aimed at D.C. and TSMC. (link)

• Apple Eyes Perplexity AI: The race for AI search dominance just escalated. (link)

📱 Leaked Docs Reveal OpenAI’s Hardware Play

TL;DR:

New court filings confirm OpenAI is building a “personal AI device” designed in collaboration with ex-Apple design chief Jony Ive and early iOS engineers. The vision? Something smarter than a phone, with native ChatGPT access and real-time contextual awareness.

Our Take:

This is a direct challenge to the smartphone. If OpenAI pulls this off, we’re talking about the birth of a new category: AI-native hardware. It also explains Altman’s increasing distance from Apple and his push for custom chips. If you’re in consumer tech, this is your early warning: a new interface war is coming, and it won’t have apps.

🔗 See what the court filings reveal →

 SoftBank’s $1 Trillion AI Chip Hub Pitch

TL;DR:

SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son is reportedly pitching a $1 trillion AI chip manufacturing hub to U.S. leaders and TSMC. The idea is to build a domestic supply chain that rivals Nvidia, powered by government incentives and offshore partnerships.

Our Take:

We’ve moved from chip shortage panic to geopolitical power plays. This isn’t just SoftBank trying to reclaim relevance; it’s a full-court press to control AI’s hardware backbone. If you work in infrastructure, defense tech, or policy, this is the kind of deal that reshapes industrial priorities. And if you’re a founder in the chip ecosystem? Eyes wide open, this is the kind of megatrend that creates new giants.

🔗 Inside the trillion-dollar pitch →

🧠 Apple & Meta Are Circling Perplexity AI

TL;DR:

Apple has reportedly discussed acquiring Perplexity AI, the rising star in AI-powered search. Meta, meanwhile, held talks with Perplexity and other top labs, including Ilya Sutskever’s SSI and Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines, before its $14B Scale AI investment.

Our Take:

This is a battle for control of AI search and superintelligence strategy. Apple is preparing for a world without Google. Meta is throwing around $100M bonuses to poach top OpenAI talent. And startups like Perplexity are now kingmakers in a post-PageRank era. For founders: your exit window is open. For job seekers: watch these acquisitions. The biggest talent wars in tech are happening right now, and they’re not on LinkedIn—they’re in DMs.

🔗 What Apple and Meta want from Perplexity →