The job title can stay the same while the work moves

A salesperson used to send a customer dataset to an analyst. Now the salesperson asks AI to explore it first. No job has necessarily disappeared. But the first pass, the required judgment, and the place where mistakes must be caught have moved. OpenAI recently described this as “task crossover.” Its data shows people attempting work historically associated with other occupations, but it does not show whether the output was used, correct, time-saving, or substitutive. That leaves two very different possibilities: useful role expansion, or extra work transferred without training, time, or recognition. Which handoff in your work changed first—and who now owns the checking?