EXPOSURE TO AI
19%
RESILIENT
OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
10%
of this role’s work is already showing up in real Claude usage (Anthropic Economic Index).
Robots can’t hold a hand, a scalpel, or your nerve.
19% of this role’s O*NET tasks are within reach of today’s AI. That is the core-weighted exposure score from Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”). It measures a capability ceiling, not a headcount forecast. Certified hard to automate. Today’s AI barely touches the core of this one.
WHAT AI CAN ALREADY DO
- Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations
- Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props
- Write original or adapted material for dramas, comedies, puppet shows, narration, or other performances
- Promote productions using means such as interviews about plays or movies
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
- Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences
- Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role
- Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures
- Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed
THE HONEST PART. A percentage is not a pink slip. High exposure usually means a role shrinks and shifts toward judgment, direction and responsibility: the parts a model can’t sign its name to. Exposure ≠ displacement. Breathe.
"My job is 19% cooked. What’s yours?"
SOURCES: O*NET 30.3 occupational tasks · Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”,
arXiv:2303.10130) · Anthropic Economic Index 2026 (CC-BY) |
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last updated 2026-07-16