The AI Skills Shift: Mapping Skill Obsolescence, Emergence, and Transition Pathways in the LLM Era

ArXi:2604.06906v1 Announce Type: new As Large Language Models reshape the global labor market, policymakers and workers need empirical data on which occupational skills may be most susceptible to automation. We present the Skill Automation Feasibility Index (SAFI), benchmarking four frontier LLMs -- LLaMA 3.3 70B, Mistral Large, Qwen 2.5 72B, and Gemini 2.5 Flash -- across 263 text-based tasks spanning all 35 skills in the U. S. Department of Labor's O*NET taxonomy (1,052 total model calls, 0% failure rate.