The AI Impact Timeline: What to Expect
By 2028, approximately 50% of Business Continuity Planner tasks will be automated by AI. Junior planners focused on documentation and administrative tasks face impact as early as 2026. Senior planners with strategic decision-making expertise and crisis leadership skills can extend their careers to 2030 and beyond.
The early wave of impact, beginning around 2026, will primarily affect roles focused on routine risk assessments, documentation generation, compliance reporting, and basic scenario testing. These tasks are highly susceptible to automation by current AI capabilities.
The mid-wave transformation, expected by 2028, will see deeper integration of AI in business impact analyses, risk scoring, and recovery time objective (RTO) calculations. This shifts the focus from manual analysis to orchestrating AI tools.