Everyone's arguing about which jobs AI will kill.

Everyone's arguing about which jobs AI will kill.

Everyone's arguing about which jobs AI will kill.

Meanwhile, three new roles showed up in this week's research that nobody's hiring for yet. And the companies that don't fill them are already paying for it.

  1. Head of Agent Economics EY coined this one. Their argument: AI agent costs cut across every department budget, and right now nobody owns the bill. No spend ceilings. No call-volume caps. No automatic shutoffs.

One company burned through 603 million tokens before anyone noticed (no shutoffs, nobody watching the meter). When they finally looked, they cut costs 125x.

If your CFO doesn't know what your AI agents spent last month, you need this role.

  1. Agent Governance Architect A company running 70+ internal AI agents found something nobody talks about: their agents were quietly disagreeing with each other. Sales agents and marketing agents held different versions of "who's our customer." No errors. No alerts. Just a slow decline in output quality that nobody could explain.

Gartner and IBM have governance frameworks. They're built for shadow AI and security risk. They don't solve the problem of authorized agents drifting apart from each other. That's not a policy problem. It's a plumbing problem. It needs a person who understands both.

If your AI tools are giving different answers to the same question and nobody's noticed yet, you need this role.

  1. Agent Security Engineer Last week, hackers stole celebrity Instagram accounts (including the Obama White House account) by asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email on file. That's it. (They just asked.)

Meta launched that bot in March promising "reliable, 24/7 support." By May, it was the attack vector.

OWASP just formed a dedicated agentic AI security council. A researcher offered $10K to anyone who could extract sensitive data from their AI agent. The role of "person who makes sure the AI doesn't hand over the keys" didn't exist 12 months ago. Now it's urgent.

If you've given an AI tool access to customer data and nobody's stress-tested it, you need this role.

Here's what that adds up to: the companies arguing about whether AI will replace their workforce are missing that AI already created three jobs they haven't filled. And the cost of leaving those seats empty isn't theoretical. It's 603 million wasted tokens, silently decaying ROI, and celebrity accounts getting stolen by someone who asked nicely.

Stop asking whether AI will take your jobs. Start asking which jobs it just created that nobody's filling.