AI and Bermudian Jobs: Prepare, Don't React

PerspectiveBy Jorai Laurenceo, Founder & Executive Director of Laurenceo
Laurenceo's Bermuda AI GuidesAll Writing

Ask Bermudians about AI and work and the answer is anxiety mixed with habit. In a survey of 248 residents published in January 2026, 62% said jobs are at risk because of AI, yet nearly six in ten employed residents already use AI for work every week. Both things are true. The question is whether Bermuda prepares or reacts.

Why Bermuda Is More Exposed Than Most

Generative AI is best at reading, summarising, drafting and checking documents. That describes a large part of Bermuda's economy: international business, insurance operations, compliance, corporate services, law and public administration. Opposition leader Ben Smith made this point in June 2026, and he was right to. A tourism economy would feel AI differently; a document economy feels it first.

The Numbers Are Not Good Enough

Published estimates of AI job losses in Bermuda range from 2% to 20%. None of them was measured in Bermuda. Policy built on borrowed numbers will either panic or shrug. Bermuda needs its own measurement: which tasks employers are automating, which roles they are hiring for, and how fast.

The goal is not to protect every task. It is to make sure the new work that AI creates in Bermuda is done by Bermudians.

Where the New Work Is

AI does not only remove tasks; it creates roles that did not exist three years ago. In Bermuda the clearest are:

  • AI governance and assurance, because every BMA-regulated firm now needs to inventory its AI, rate its materiality and evidence its controls.
  • Data and modelling, as catastrophe, pricing and reserving teams adopt machine learning.
  • Automation, redesigning workflows so AI handles the routine and people handle the judgement.
  • The domain expert who directs AI: the underwriter, lawyer or accountant who knows when the model is wrong.

What Each of Us Can Do

  1. Workers: learn the tools now. Bermuda College, the Government's free AI Education Series and Bermuda Coders all offer routes in; Laurenceo lists them all in its AI jobs and training guide.
  2. Employers: train before you automate, and tell staff what is changing and why.
  3. Government: measure, publish and fund training aimed at the roles that grow.
  4. Educators: teach AI governance, not only AI use, because that is where Bermuda's regulatory strength creates demand.

Prepare

Bermuda has handled economic shifts before by moving early and investing in its people. AI is the same test on a shorter clock. I started Laurenceo to help Bermuda meet it: free research, free tools and a daily record of what is changing, so no one has to guess.

About the Author

Jorai Laurenceo is the Founder and Executive Director of Laurenceo, Bermuda's AI governance think tank, based in Hamilton, Bermuda. He wrote Laurenceo's public response to the Bermuda Monetary Authority's AI consultation and leads Laurenceo Intelligence. More about Jorai.

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