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Last Update: 3/13/2026
Your role’s AI Resilience Score is
34.5%
Median Score
Changing Fast
Evolving
Stable
This reflects the reliability of your score based on the number of data sources available for this career and how closely those sources agree on the outlook. A higher confidence means more consistent evidence from labor experts and AI models.
What does this resilience result mean?
These roles are shifting as AI becomes part of everyday workflows. Expect new responsibilities and new opportunities.
AI Resilience Report for
Media and Communication Workers, All Other
They create and share information through different platforms like social media, radio, or TV, ensuring the right message reaches the audience effectively.
This role is evolving
The career of Media and Communication Workers is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is starting to help with tasks like creating voiceovers and auto-captioning at events. While AI can handle routine sound work and operate non-stop, it can't replace the personal touch and judgment that human announcers bring, especially during live events or emergencies.
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The career of Media and Communication Workers is labeled as "Evolving" because AI is starting to help with tasks like creating voiceovers and auto-captioning at events. While AI can handle routine sound work and operate non-stop, it can't replace the personal touch and judgment that human announcers bring, especially during live events or emergencies.
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AI Resilience
AI Resilience Model v1.0
AI Task Resilience
CareerVillage's proprietary model that estimates how resilient each occupation's tasks are to AI automation and augmentation
Evolving48.0%
48.0%
Althoff & Reichardt
Economic Growth
Measured as "Wage bill" which is a long term projection for average wage × employment. It's the total labor income flowing to an occupation
Changing fast21.0%
21.0%
Medium Demand
Labor Market Outlook
We use BLS employment projections to complement the AI-focused assessments from other sources.
Learn about this scoreGrowth Rate (2024-34):
2.7%
Growth Percentile:
48.6%
Annual Openings:
3,000
Annual Openings Pct:
29.6%
Analysis of Current AI Resilience
Media/Comm Workers, Other
Updated Quarterly • Last Update: 2/17/2026
What's changing and what's not
In media and events, some tasks are getting AI help. For instance, companies now use AI to create radio or announcer voices. NBC even used AI voice-cloning to bring back a famous sports announcer’s voice for promos [1], and singer/tech-leader will.i.am has built AI “radio hosts” that greet listeners and play music [2].
In audio production, new AI tools can automatically mix sound, isolate voices from crowd noise, or spot and remove copyrighted music in real time [3] [4]. Some live-event systems use AI to auto-caption or translate speech, replacing human note-takers [5]. However, many parts of a host’s job still need a human touch.
In an emergency or a lively speech, people rely on a real person’s judgment and warmth. Experts stress that AI today usually handles routine audio work, while human announcers remain key for the creative, personal parts of the show [3].
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AI in the real world
Whether venues use these AI tools soon depends on many things. The technology is available – for example, companies now sell AI captioning and translation systems [5] – but it can be expensive and require a lot of adjustment [3]. Training an AI voice or audio system for a specific event can cost time and money.
On the plus side, AI can work 24/7 and may save on fees or fines (such as by catching copyright issues [4]). On the other hand, poaching a live announcer isn’t always cheap: these jobs pay around $72,000 a year on average [6], reflecting their skill. Audiences also like human voices, so broadcasters take care to use AI ethically (NBC got permission from a family before cloning a voice [1]).
In general, experts expect AI to be adopted where it helps make work faster and easier, but human hosts will still handle the cheering, calming, and personal parts of events [3].
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Career: Media and Communication Workers, All Other
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Employment & Wage Data
Median Wage
$71,770
Jobs (2024)
34,300
Growth (2024-34)
+2.7%
Annual Openings
3,000
Education
High school diploma or equivalent
Experience
None
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2024-2034
Task-Level AI Resilience Scores
AI-generated estimates of task resilience over the next 3 years
1
Learn to pronounce the names of players, coaches, institutional personnel, officials, and other individuals involved in an event.
2
Greet attendees and serve as masters of ceremonies at banquets, store openings, and other events.
3
Instruct and calm crowds during emergencies.
4
Meet with event directors to review schedules and exchange information about details, such as national anthem performers and starting lineups.
5
Study the layout of an event venue to be able to give accurate directions in the event of an emergency.
6
Improvise commentary on items of interest, such as background and history of an event or past records of participants.
7
Review and announce crowd control procedures before the beginning of each event.
Tasks are ranked by their AI resilience, with the most resilient tasks shown first. Core tasks are essential functions of this occupation, while supplemental tasks provide additional context.
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