MIT Study: Marketing Jobs Face 5x More AI Risk Than You Think

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We spend a lot of time helping companies implement AI into their marketing operations. Not the flashy stuff. The internal workflows, the automation layers, the systems that make teams more efficient. And over the past six months, we’ve been watching a pattern emerge that hasn’t quite hit the broader conversation yet.

Marketing teams are getting smaller.

Not through layoffs, but through attrition and hiring freezes. The companies replacing those roles aren’t replacing them with people. They’re replacing them with AI-augmented workflows run by whoever’s left.

Now MIT has released a study that puts numbers to what we’ve been seeing up close. It says 11.7% of the US workforce can be replaced by AI right now, with existing technology. That’s roughly one in nine workers, representing $1.2 trillion in wages.

Marketing is explicitly called out as one of the most exposed fields.

The study uses the metaphor of an iceberg. What’s visible above the waterline—the tech layoffs, the coding jobs being aut…