Mike Rowe Reveals Which American Jobs Will Remain Untouched By The Coming Ai Revolution

Mike Rowe is sounding nan siren astir nan early of achromatic and blue-collar jobs, and is urging young Americans to rethink their profession choices owed to threats from artificial intelligence.

The erstwhile prima of nan shows "How America Works" and "Dirty Jobs" sat down pinch Fox News Radio big Brian Kilmeade to talk nan outlook for nan U.S. occupation marketplace amid caller developments from President Donald Trump's management to put successful home power and artificial intelligence. 

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Trump visited Pittsburgh connected July 15 to announce a $90 cardinal finance successful information centers and different power projects successful Pennsylvania. 

Rowe was besides coming astatine nan event, dubbed nan Energy and Investment Summit, astatine Carnegie Mellon University. He praised nan efforts by nan national authorities and Pennsylvania leaders arsenic "enormous."

"The headlines person caught up to america successful a measurement that is perfectly undeniable," Rowe said during nan interview. "This is an tremendous play by Pennsylvania and [the 2 senators] [David] McCormick and [John] Fetterman, some of whom came together successful a nonpartisan measurement to get down this push."

"I sewage invited simply to punctual nan crowd that creating jobs is very different from creating enthusiasm for those jobs."

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Coal miner Jeff Crowe winks astatine President Donald Trump aft he signed Crowe's reside during an arena connected power accumulation successful nan East Room of nan White House, Tuesday, April 8, 2025, successful Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The laminitis of MikeroweWORKS warned that artificial intelligence is not needfully coming for jobs for illustration ember miners and waste and acquisition jobs, but alternatively coders and nan exertion manufacture whitethorn beryllium astatine a precocious risk.

"We have, for nan past 30 years, been elevating our white-collar information of nan workforce astatine nan disbursal of nan blue-collar portion," Rowe said. 

"We person been benignant of intimating that nan robots and nan exertion that is surely connected nan horizon, if not already here, are coming for nan blue-collar jobs. It’s turning retired to beryllium thing rather nan opposite- it's nan white-collar positions."

Rowe added that penning and creative-focused jobs person unstable outlooks owed to automation. 

"These are looking very wobbly correct now," he said. "The AI is going to travel for those [jobs]."

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However, Rowe cited nan opportunity that nan threat of white-collar positions brings to blue-collar ones. He expressed assurance that this resulting oversea of alteration successful nan U.S. occupation marketplace could bring astir a "golden age" successful waste and acquisition positions.

"Short term, we are entering nan aureate property of plumbing, steam fitting, tube fitting, welding, HVAC," Rowe explained. "Those jobs are not going to beryllium impacted by AI, and those are nan jobs that are being created successful Pennsylvania correct now. And those are nan opportunities that parents and guidance counselors ought to beryllium zeroing successful on."

Rowe touted his foundation’s Work Ethic Scholarship program, which has seen an summation successful applications complete nan past year, showcasing nan nationalist liking successful young Americans for skilled waste and acquisition jobs. 

"My instauration is modest." he said. "We've fixed distant astir $13 cardinal successful these Work Ethic scholarships and this twelvemonth we person 10 times nan applicants that we did a twelvemonth before." 

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Despite nan evident enthusiasm from adolescents for blue-collar jobs, Rowe emphasized nan request to capable nan hundreds of thousands of unfastened positions, and continuing efforts to advertise those positions are imperative to steadying U.S. manufacturing efforts.

"We don't person an opportunity problem," he explained. "And while we mightiness person a skills gap, we besides person a will gap. And if we don't, if we don't deed that point caput on, we're going to conscionable support pushing nan boulder up nan hill, I'm afraid."

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