Published on: July 16, 2026 at 8:27 pm
By Nick Keppler
About one in four Las Vegas residents works in the gaming and hospitality industries. For all these servers, hotel workers, and game operators, the odds of career stability are not good, according to some researchers. A recent report from RCG Economics predicts that 80% to 95% of hospitality jobs will soon be at risk from AI and automation.
These are not even the jobs most vulnerable to AI replacement. A recent Microsoft report placed interpreters and translators, historians, transportation passenger attendants, sales representatives for service companies, and writers/authors at the top of a list of the most at-risk professions.
For anyone looking to enter professions susceptible to AI substitution or automation, Academy of Management Scholar Thomas Hutzschenreuter of the Technical University of Munich has simple advice: don’t.
“If you are early in your career, you should be aware that the AI wave disrupting many professions and career paths is underway,” he said. “That’s the most important point.”
Hutzschenreuter has children. He said, “I would forbid them from doing what we call here in Germany vocational training for the banking industry. This includes both junior banking positions such as analysts but also university majors specializing in banking.”
Hutzschenreuter singles out such administrative careers as non-options. Jobs that require brain power and specialized knowledge but are repetitive and organizational will soon be completely overtaken by AI and phased out, he said.
“We speak of a wave where machines and AI algorithms take over administrative human work,” he said.
Yet he said he still encounters people studying to enter or actually working in those fields, which once provided relative job security and career stability, who were “completely naïve” and oblivious to the ongoing upheaval caused by AI and automation.
“They dream of a job that has existed for decades but that will not exist anymore.”
Categories: AI, Careers, Technology, HR
