Ranked by resistance to AI
Within this field, which work is hardest for a machine to do.
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Professor
The scholar paid to profess a subject in public — twenty-five centuries of teaching and discovery, from Plato's grove to the tenure track and the AI tutor.
AI-resistant 76 🏫Teacher
The world's largest profession: from Sumerian tablet houses to AI-era classrooms, one adult tasked with turning thirty strangers into a room that learns.
AI-resistant 78 📜Historian
The trained interrogator of the past — from Herodotus and Sima Qian to the digital archive, turning fragile documents into checkable accounts of what happened.
AI-resistant 70 🧩Psychologist
The scientist of mind and behavior, from Wundt's 1879 Leipzig laboratory to the therapy room — trained to hear what a person cannot yet say themselves.
AI-resistant 82 🌐Translator
The profession that carries meaning between languages — from the Septuagint and Jerome's Vulgate to Toledo, Nuremberg's booths and the machine-translation age.
AI-resistant 28 📖Librarian
The keeper and guide of recorded knowledge, from Nineveh's clay tablets to the e-lending fight — organizing what humanity knows so that anyone can find it.
AI-resistant 55