Recent rapid improvements in the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) have raised concerns about these technologies’ impact on employment, specifically, the rollout of generative AI models such as ChatGPT that can create new work product from existing inputs. Unease about new technologies displacing workers is not new. It can be traced back at least to the earliest days of automation during the Industrial Revolution. Technologies such as the steam engine and the dynamo inspired similar fears in their day, as did information technology when computers were first introduced. But the jobs AI is expected to touch in the years to come are different from those impacted by previous waves of technological change. The ultimate effects of AI on the workforce will depend on the extent to which AI augments (or complements) rather than automates (or substitutes for) workers’ tasks. Will this new technology aid workers or replace them? To understand AI’s possible occupational implications, we explore the workforce effects of the last technological advance thought to put jobs at risk: computerization. We look at the impact on occupations believed vulnerable to computerization 10 years ago and what that analysis may say about job vulnerability to generative AI today.