OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
4%
of this role’s work is already showing up in real Claude usage (Anthropic Economic Index).
The robots can help. They can’t replace the room you read.
32% 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. Mostly safe. AI helps around the edges, but the job stays human.
WHAT AI CAN ALREADY DO
- Record progress of investigation, maintain informational files on suspects, and submit reports to commanding officer or magistrate to authorize warrants
- Prepare reports that detail investigation findings
- Notify, or request notification of, medical examiner or district attorney representative
- Obtain facts or statements from complainants, witnesses, and accused persons and record interviews, using recording device
- Prepare charges or responses to charges, or information for court cases, according to formalized procedures
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
- Check victims for signs of life, such as breathing and pulse
- Secure deceased body and obtain evidence from it, preventing bystanders from tampering with it prior to medical examiner's arrival
- Secure persons at scene, keeping witnesses from conversing or leaving the scene before investigators arrive
- Search for and collect evidence, such as fingerprints, using investigative equipment
- Prepare and serve search and arrest warrants
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 32% cooked. What’s yours?"
SOURCES: O*NET 30.3 occupational tasks · Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”,
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last updated 2026-07-16