AI isn’t taking your job – it’s creating career opportunities
Think AI is here to replace you? Think again. From self-driving cars to robot surgeons and game-playing bots, artificial intelligence is transforming every industry – and it needs smart humans to build, guide and question it.
Studying STEM subjects like systems engineering, algorithmics, and applied computing can set you up for the fastest-growing careers of the future – in AI ethics, data science, robotics, and beyond.
Whether you love coding, gaming, or problem-solving, there’s an AI-powered career waiting for you.
Here are some top tips to help you carve out your own career with AI.
Electives checklist
Get future-ready with these high school electives! Each one will help you build the skills you need to understand, design, and work with AI and emerging technologies.
- Systems engineering
- Algorithmics (HESS)
- Applied computing
- Mathematical methods
- Physics
Games
Explore how AI shapes the worlds you play in — from epic storylines to decision-making bots, these games dive deep into the power, ethics, and possibilities of artificial intelligence.
Cyberpunk 2077 is an action role-playing game where corporations rule everything and AI is viewed as dangerous. You follow V, who has a cybernetic ‘bio-chip’ that contains a rockstar called Johnny. Your mission is to stop Johnny from taking over V’s consciousness, and separate the two.
Mass Effect is a highly acclaimed sci-fi action RPG series that explores the ethics of AI. Play as Commander Shepard, uniting the galaxy’s diverse species to fight an ancient, galaxy harvesting machine race called the Reapers.
GLADIABOTS – AI Combat Arena is a strategy game where you get to make an AI robot squad and send them into battle!
Get digital!
Ready to level up your AI knowledge? Follow, read, watch, and listen your way to a smarter, tech-powered future with these picks.
Follow: @covacut: A computer science student who creates videos that help demystify AI.
Read: What Aussie students think of AI and the future of work: Find out how other students view AI in this Careers with STEM online article.
Watch: I, Robot: Starring Will Smith, this movie features a robopsychologist who investigates the murder of roboticist Dr Alfred. It explores whether robots (AI) can violate the laws of robotics and be capable of killing their creator.
Listen: “Scarier than killer robots”: why your brain isn’t ready for AI, ABC: In this episode of the ABC’s All in the mind podcast, delve into the psychology of the AI revolution.
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This originally appeared in Careers with STEM: Artificial Intelligence 2025.
