Daymond John has been sounding the alarm about the future of work for years. Now Microsoft has the data to back it up.
A new study from Microsoft analyzed 200,000 conversations between users and Microsoft Copilot to rank 80 professions by their risk of AI displacement. The results are not surprising to anyone who has been paying attention. Translators, writers, customer service representatives, PR specialists, telemarketers, and sales agents sit at the top of the most threatened list. The jobs at the bottom? Roofers, cement masons, pipe layers, and highway maintenance workers.
This is exactly why Daymond John has been so vocal about the trades. While white-collar professionals debate whether AI will take their jobs, skilled trade workers are building, fixing, and maintaining a world that still requires human hands. No large language model is patching a roof or laying railroad track.
The Microsoft study makes one thing clear: the jobs most exposed to AI are the ones built around communicating information. The jobs most protected are the ones built around doing something physical in the real world. That distinction matters enormously for anyone thinking about where to build a career or a business in the next decade.
Daymond John saw this coming. The $7 trillion opportunity in the trades is not just about supply and demand. It is about future-proofing your livelihood in a world where AI is moving faster than most people realize.
The question is not whether AI will affect your industry. It is whether you are positioned on the right side of that shift.
