36 US occupations across software, business, creative work, public-facing services, healthcare, education and trades. Each profile explains its task ratings and includes official economic data, practical examples and career options.
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Structured processing and draft explanations are exposed to software assistance. Accounting and audit work also depends on the reliability of records, interpretation of transactions and responsibility for the conclusions drawn from them.
Finance and operationsTools can generate visual alternatives and accelerate production. Art direction still involves selecting a coherent idea, explaining it and guiding people to execute it under client, brand and production constraints.
Creative workStructured entry, matching and routine record updates are exposed to established accounting software and AI assistance. Exceptions, source quality and understanding why records disagree remain important parts of the work.
Finance and operationsCalculations, drawings and document analysis can be assisted by software. Civil engineering also requires accountable design judgment, knowledge of site conditions and coordination of work with physical consequences.
Engineering and tradesEvidence organization and report drafting can be assisted. Compliance work still involves establishing facts, interpreting the relevant requirements and making accountable decisions about exceptions or violations.
Legal and complianceWell-specified coding, conversion and routine maintenance can be assisted. Programmers still need to understand existing behavior and verify changes against the environment where the program actually runs.
Software and dataDocumentation and technical comparisons can be assisted. Systems analysis still requires discovering what users need, reconciling constraints and checking that a proposed system fits the organization.
Software and dataRoutine troubleshooting and knowledge retrieval can be assisted. User support also requires diagnosing incomplete descriptions, working with real devices and deciding when an issue needs escalation.
Service and administrationApproved answers and simple requests can be handled through automated service workflows. People remain important when the customer's problem crosses systems, falls outside policy or needs a negotiated resolution.
Service and administrationAI can assist coding, exploration and written analysis. Reliable data science depends on defining a useful decision, understanding the data-generating process and evaluating results without misleading shortcuts.
Software and dataCopy revision, consistency checks and draft summaries are assistable. Editorial responsibility includes deciding what merits publication, verifying claims and preserving the meaning and standards of the publication.
Writing and communicationsPlanning and documentation can benefit from software, but the selected tasks are mostly physical installation, testing and maintenance. Limited exposure to text automation does not remove economic cycles, physical demands or training requirements.
Engineering and tradesLesson and material preparation can be assisted, while teaching children depends heavily on live interaction, observation and adaptation. A low task index does not establish stable school budgets, class sizes or hiring in a particular district.
Healthcare and educationScheduling, draft correspondence and document preparation can be assisted. Executive support also depends on context, discretion and resolving priorities that are not fully captured in a calendar or task list.
Service and administrationReporting and scenario preparation can be assisted, but financial management includes choosing assumptions, allocating resources and accepting responsibility for decisions. A low task index does not mean that finance teams or management structures will remain unchanged.
Finance and operationsImage generation and layout assistance put pressure on routine production tasks. The value of a designer's work also depends on understanding the brief, choosing a coherent visual direction and delivering usable assets under real constraints.
Creative workRecords, draft communications and candidate search can be assisted. Hiring and employee support also involve sensitive information, fair processes and judgments that should not be delegated to a plausible automated answer.
People and learningTools can summarize alerts and assist investigation, but security decisions depend on the environment, the evidence and the consequences of action. Automated recommendations can create risk when context is missing.
Software and dataMachine translation can accelerate text work, while accuracy still depends on context, terminology and purpose. Interpreting a live exchange adds interaction and timing that a written translation workflow does not capture.
Writing and communicationsResearch organization and document drafting can be assisted. Legal work also requires fact development, professional judgment, client communication and responsibility for the advice or representation provided.
Legal and compliancePlanning models and reporting can assist logistics decisions. Physical capacity, unreliable information and customer commitments still require people to reconcile what a plan says with what can actually move.
Management and operationsResearch summaries and presentation production can be accelerated by AI. Credible analysis still requires understanding how an organization works and testing whether a proposed change is feasible and useful.
Management and operationsAI assistance can speed information gathering, coding and report production. The difficult parts remain framing a useful question, obtaining a credible sample and deciding what the evidence actually supports.
Research and marketingModeling and generative design can assist exploration, but an acceptable design must also be manufacturable, maintainable and supported by evidence. Physical testing and failure investigation remain central checks on digital output.
Engineering and tradesCoding, analysis preparation and reporting can be assisted. Operations research still depends on choosing the right objective, representing constraints and checking whether a model's recommendation works outside the model.
Software and dataSearch, document summaries and first drafts can be assisted, while reliable case support still requires source checking, organization and careful handling of facts. A plausible legal-looking document is not evidence that a matter has been researched correctly.
Legal and complianceSchedules, status reports and meeting summaries can be assisted. Delivery still depends on discovering constraints, negotiating priorities and getting decisions from people who control the work.
Management and operationsRoutine copy, media summaries and draft responses are assistable. Reputation work still relies on accurate information, stakeholder understanding and sound judgment about what an organization should say and when.
Writing and communicationsDocumentation can be assisted, but the selected nursing tasks are dominated by patient observation, care and coordination. This low text-and-software exposure reading is not a prediction about staffing, workloads or the future organization of healthcare.
Healthcare and educationProspect research, proposals and record updates can be assisted. Selling a service still requires understanding the buyer's problem, establishing trust and negotiating an offer the business can actually deliver.
Service and administrationRoutine correspondence, records and scheduling can be assisted or automated. Administrative value also comes from handling exceptions, maintaining reliable information and coordinating the work that falls between formal processes.
Service and administrationCode generation changes how software is produced, but a working snippet is only one part of delivering a reliable system. Requirements, interfaces, testing and operational responsibility are central to interpreting this occupation's exposure.
Software and dataAI can shorten drafting and editing, but reliable documentation still starts with product investigation. Writers who only rephrase supplied material face a different task mix from writers who test systems and resolve conflicting specifications.
Writing and communicationsDrafting lessons, slides and exercises is increasingly assistable. Diagnosing a performance problem, helping people practice and evaluating whether learning changes the work still call for direct attention and judgment.
People and learningTools can generate screens and visual variants. Interface design still requires understanding user tasks, organizing interactions and checking that the design works across states, devices and access needs.
Creative workPage scaffolding and routine code changes are assistable. Delivering a useful website still requires checking behavior, accessibility, performance and integrations in the actual publishing or business context.
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