By THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Published on April 02, 2026
Artificial intelligence has sparked fears it will become a job killer. It’s also fueling a crop of new careers.
AI created 640,000 jobs between 2023 and 2025 in the U.S., according to an analysis by LinkedIn of job posting data, including new white-collar positions such as head of AI and AI engineer. That tally doesn’t include the huge number of temporary construction jobs tied to building the mammoth data centers AI relies on.