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According to Infobae, artificial intelligence is already restructuring Argentine employment and university curricula. AI and employment specialist Sebastian Rinaldi reports that 85% of people in Argentina have not used AI and only 0.1% use it intensively, while careers in Law and the social sciences lose value and data engineering, programming, and mathematics surge in demand.
Key Takeaways:
- Adoption is shallow: Infobae cites Sebastian Rinaldi that 85% of people have not used AI and only 0.1% use it intensively.
- Junior roles hit first: Rinaldi told Infobae that a junior lawyer has lost much value today because language models cover routine drafting and review work.
- Careers losing value: Infobae identifies degrees focused on social sciences, History, Sociology, and Law as the careers most under pressure.
- Careers gaining demand: Per Infobae, data engineering, programming, and mathematics specialization are the disciplines pulling ahead.
- Workforce is ready: Rinaldi tells Infobae that 95% of workers understand the AI transition; the gap is tooling and time, not awareness.
A May 2026 feature in Infobae documents how artificial intelligence is no longer a future risk for Argentine workers and university students. It is a present-tense restructuring of which roles companies hire for, which degrees students should pursue, and which professionals will see the value of their early-career labor erode first.
Whether you run a business in Houston, Cypress, Buenos Aires, or Bogota, the pattern Infobae describes is the same one your own market is about to face. The Argentine case is useful precisely because it shows the early signal cleanly, with named sources and concrete numbers.
What Infobae Reports
According to Infobae, the central source for the article is Sebastian Rinaldi, a specialist in AI and employment and the founder of Laburen, a company focused on hybridizing organizations with artificial intelligence. Rinaldi tells Infobae that adoption in Argentina is still highly uneven: 85% of people have not used AI at all, and only 0.1% use it intensively. Companies began serious AI adoption in 2023 and 2024, and Argentina shows a lag compared to countries with greater technological development.
As Infobae reports, the workforce itself is not the bottleneck. Rinaldi notes that 95% of workers understand the AI transition. The challenge is converting that understanding into daily use through hybrid models that combine AI with human intelligence inside corporate processes.
The asymmetry that matters: If 85% of people have never used AI and only 0.1% use it intensively, the productivity gap between those two groups widens fast. The 0.1% are not slightly more productive. They are operating in an entirely different cost structure.
Which Careers Lose Value, Which Careers Gain
Infobae is explicit about the direction of travel inside universities and the early-career job market. Careers focused on social sciences, History, Sociology, and Law are losing value as generative AI absorbs the kind of routine reading, drafting, summarizing, and reviewing work that used to fall to junior professionals.
As Rinaldi tells Infobae, a junior lawyer has lost much value today. The work that justified the first two or three years of a legal career is now produced in seconds by language models. The same compression is hitting administrative tasks and content production for social media, which Infobae identifies as the sectors where AI displacement is most visible right now.
Careers gaining demand, per Infobae:
- Data engineering
- Programming
- Mathematics specialization
These are the disciplines that build, deploy, and maintain the AI systems that companies in Argentina are integrating into corporate processes. The shift Infobae describes is not theoretical. It is a reallocation of demand away from generalist humanities degrees and toward technical fields that have direct leverage on AI infrastructure.
Why a 2023-2024 Adoption Curve Matters Now
Infobae reports that companies in Argentina began serious AI adoption in 2023 and 2024. That timing is important. It means the first cohort of organizations to internalize AI into hiring, training, and process design is already two to three years ahead. The displacement of junior legal work, administrative work, and social-media content production is what happens when those organizations finish the first wave of integration and start to redesign roles around it.
The lag Infobae notes against countries with greater technological development is not a structural disadvantage. It is a window. The businesses that act in the next 12 to 24 months will catch the same productivity wave that the early adopters caught in 2023.
What This Means for Your Business
The Infobae feature is about Argentina, but the playbook applies anywhere generative AI is reaching saturation: the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, and every Latin American market in between.
If 95% of your workforce already understands that AI is reshaping work, you do not need a change-management campaign. You need to give your team a concrete AI workflow for the three or four tasks that consume the most hours each week: customer email triage, social media drafting, quote generation, internal documentation. The competitive edge in 2026 will not belong to the businesses with the most AI tools. It will belong to the businesses that picked two or three high-leverage workflows and integrated AI into them deeply.
For service businesses, that means rethinking how you produce social media content, how you draft proposals, and how you handle the first round of customer inquiries. For online sellers, that means using AI to write better product copy, generate listing variants, and respond to support tickets at machine speed. For everyone, it means treating AI literacy as an operational requirement, not a future investment.
Frequently Asked Questions
How widespread is AI adoption in Argentina according to Infobae?
According to Infobae, citing AI and employment specialist Sebastian Rinaldi, 85% of people in Argentina have not used artificial intelligence, and only 0.1% use it intensively. Companies began serious AI adoption in 2023 and 2024, and Argentina shows a lag compared to countries with greater technological development.
Which careers are losing value due to AI in Argentina?
As Infobae reports, careers focused on social sciences, History, Sociology, and Law are losing value as AI takes over tasks once handled by junior professionals. Rinaldi notes that a junior lawyer has lost much value today because language models perform much of the routine legal drafting and review work.
Which careers are gaining demand because of AI?
Infobae reports that data engineering, programming, and mathematics specialization are gaining demand. These fields directly support the design, deployment, and maintenance of AI systems that companies in Argentina are integrating into corporate processes.
Which job functions in Argentina are most affected by AI right now?
According to Infobae, administrative tasks and content production for social media are among the functions most affected. These are the same workflows where generative AI tools deliver immediate productivity gains, allowing one operator to do work that previously required several.
How are workers responding to the AI transition in Argentina?
Rinaldi tells Infobae that 95% of workers understand the AI transition. The challenge is no longer convincing people that AI is coming, but giving them concrete tools and time to integrate it into their daily work.
"The businesses that will win the next two years are not the ones with the most AI tools. They are the ones who picked two or three workflows and integrated AI into them deeply enough that the cost structure changed."
- Diego Medina F, Founder of MerchandisePROS