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• Automation might displace around 85 million jobs but also create 97 million new roles by 2025-roles centered on AI oversight, data science, and specialized manufacturing tasks. Brand Vision Insights
• While AI and robotics will displace 85 million jobs by 2025, they are projected to create 97 million new roles in areas like AI development, data science, and human-AI collaboration. Hire Remote Developers | Build Teams in 24 Hours - Gape
• The World Economic Forum projects 69 million new jobs created by AI and automation by 2028 - in data science, AI operations, cybersecurity, human-machine collaboration, and more. Forbes
• Creating economic opportunities - With AI expected to create millions of jobs by 2030 in fields such as data science, AI engineering, and digital entrepreneurship, Uganda must ensure its graduates are equipped with future-ready skills. Whisper Eye
• India's digital sector is projected to double by 2025, creating 60-65 million jobs, with specialized roles in AI and data science witnessing a significant rise. The CSR Journal
• By 2026, the number of jobs requiring data science skills is projected to grow by nearly 28% according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Yahoo Finance
• Expanding Job Opportunities in India's Healthcare Sector Indegene's global expansion signifies potential job growth for Indian professionals in life sciences, data analytics, and AI. eHealth Magazine
• In 2024, AI will be able to generate more than 2.3 million new jobs, with a focus on data science, machine learning, and AI engineering roles. UMA Technology
• While new technologies offer the hope of longer, healthier lives, they could unleash a torrent of investment into life sciences that will boost jobs, opportunities and growth. SKY
• Last year's CHIPS and Science Act is expected to create tens of thousands of new manufacturing jobs and drive up the demand for certain technical workers by as much as 19% over the next decade. Center for Security and Emerging Technology
• Biden claimed that a new law, the bipartisan CHIPS and Science Act, will produce hundreds of thousands of new jobs. CNN
• The investment in pharmaceutical innovation helps build on Scotland's strengths in health and life sciences, creating new jobs and opportunities as part of a fair and growing wellbeing economy. Scottish Development International
• Jobs in science, technology, engineering, and math are projected to grow by almost 11% by 2031-much faster than non-STEM occupations. Education Week
• While we are over a decade beyond HBR's declaration of Data Science as the sexiest job of the 21st century, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment of data scientists to grow 36% between 2021 and 2031. Dataversity
• The overall job outlook for data science as a whole is rosy - The Bureau of Labor Statistics still predicts it will grow 36% over the next ten years, which is much faster than the average American job industry growth rate of 5%. KDnuggets
• By 2025, emerging technologies such as AI will create millions of jobs in machine learning, education and data science. Dr Mark van Rijmenam, CSP | Strategic Futurist Speaker
• Prioritizing initiatives that provide education and job opportunities in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science to a wide spectrum of American students and workers. CyberTheory
• In 2022, companies will need to embrace the role of the citizen data scientist, which are employees who work with predictive / prescriptive analytics models but whose primary job function lies outside the field of data science and analytics. Business IT
• The data scientist role has been named the number one job in the U.S. by Glassdoor and according to IBM, there is a predicted increase in the data science job openings and demands for related roles for years to come. Catherine's Career Corner

Last updated: 23 June 2025