New jobs of the AI era

AI trainer and data annotator

New role

Rates and corrects model answers, writes reference solutions and labels the data that models learn from. Companies that train models increasingly look for people with subject-matter expertise, not just labelers.

  • 6 lessons
  • 4 tools
  • 3 resources
  • Checked: October 2026

Where this job sits on the map

In the same group: 14 of 100 professions.

What changes

  1. Instead of simple labels on images, the work is more often judging a complex model answer and explaining what's wrong with it.

  2. Subject expertise is valued: medicine, law, math, programming, rare languages.

  3. The work is usually project-based and remote, through intermediary platforms, and the volume of tasks can swing sharply.

AI drafts, the person decides

How the work splits here: AI prepares a draft, the person checks it and makes the call.

AI makes the draft

What AI does

  • Does a first pass of labeling that a person then checks
  • Generates answer variants to compare
  • Finds duplicates and obvious errors in the data
  • Checks finished work against the instructions and flags the disputed spots
You check itRead it, check the facts, fix it. Without this check the draft goes nowhere.
You decide and stay responsible

What stays with the person

  • Expert judgment: which answer is correct and why
  • Staying careful across hundreds of similar tasks under a long set of instructions
  • Reference solutions that a model can't write itself
  • Turning down tasks that break the law or someone else's privacy

What to learn first

6 lessons from the course, in order. Start with the first one.

  1. Your first 30 minutes with AI: where to startStarting from zeroYour first 30 minutes with AI: sign up, ask three questions, try seven everyday tasks, learn what never to share and which plan to pick.Start here
  2. How an LLM works inside, explained without mathStarting from zeroHow a language model works inside: tokens, context, temperature and hallucinations, explained without math.
  3. How to write a good promptUserHow to give AI a task: the five parts of a good prompt, Plan Mode, and how to refine an answer instead of starting over.
  4. AI ethics and safety: hallucinations, attacks, biasUserHallucinations, prompt injection, bias, privacy and copyright: how not to trust AI blindly.
  5. Fine-tuning: when prompts aren't enoughBuilderWhen a prompt is enough, when you need RAG and when you need fine-tuning: a decision tree, LoRA and where to train.
  6. Evals: skills that improve themselvesEngineerEvals for skills: tests, pass rate, checking that the skill triggers and a data-driven improvement loop.

Which tools to use

  • An AI assistant for long documents, analysis and code, with Claude Code and Cowork on paid plans.

    Freemium
  • OpenAI's mainstream AI assistant: chat, voice, images, the Work agent and Codex.

    Freemium
  • Google's assistant, built into Gmail, Docs and Sheets, with Deep Research, Gemini Live and Canvas.

    Freemium
  • AI search with sources: answers with links, Deep Research and the Comet browser.

    Freemium

Ready-to-use materials

  • Assess the risk, spot the signs of a made-up answer and run a 5-minute check before you act on what AI says.

    Free
  • Go through an AI answer claim by claim: what's right, what's doubtful, where it's wrong and what to check at the source.

    Free
  • A 30-second check before you hit send: what to remove, how to anonymize and what to do if it's already gone out.

    Free

How to earn with AI

We don't promise income: results depend on your niche, your market and your work.

  • Job

    If you're a specialist in your field, take projects rating model answers in your specialty, and learn where AI goes wrong in your profession along the way. A platform that asks you to pay for access to tasks should raise a red flag.

  • Service

    Preparing test questions and reference answers for companies that are launching an assistant in your industry.

  • Product

    A set of test questions with reference answers for one profession, which can be used to check any assistant.

Similar professions

Checked: October 2026