CAREER CANARY / THE CHECK
What is AI changing
in your work?
Start with one task you do often. Look at what’s changing, what still needs a person, and what to ask next.
3 steps · About 2 minutes · Free
Clear this check and return to the start?
This is a starting point for a conversation about your work. It uses your observations and doesn’t predict whether you’ll lose your job.
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How this check works & your privacy
A useful question, based on your answers.
The check looks at one task, reported AI use, human involvement, and staffing over the past year. It gives priority to cuts, then unfilled vacancies or mixed staffing changes. Otherwise, it points to missing information, regular AI use, a trial, or future plans—in that order.
Human requirements add questions about the work people do. They don’t cancel a staffing warning or guarantee job security. An employer’s explanation for a cut is recorded as an explanation, not proof of its cause.
This is Jim’s practical reflection tool. It doesn’t estimate how much of your job can be automated or cover every task in your role. Its focus is generative AI software; robotics and other automation may affect work differently.
Background: the ILO’s 2025 task exposure research ↗ distinguishes potential changes to tasks from employment outcomes. It does not validate this questionnaire.
Your answers
The check keeps answers in page memory and sends no answers to a server. Reloading or clearing removes them. There are no analytics or signup forms here. Copying or saving creates a summary you control. Hosting and external websites may keep normal access logs. Avoid names or confidential information in the task field.
Check rebuilt October 8, 2026