OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
12%
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.
29% 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
- Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration
- Review transcripts to ensure that students meet graduation or college entrance requirements, and write letters of recommendation
- Counsel students regarding educational issues, such as course and program selection, class scheduling and registration, school adjustment, truancy, study habits, and career planning
- Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations
- Conduct follow-up interviews with counselees to determine if their needs have been met
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
- Provide crisis intervention to students when difficult situations occur at schools
- Confer with parents or guardians, teachers, administrators, and other professionals to discuss children's progress, resolve behavioral, academic, and other problems, and to determine priorities for students and their resource needs
- Identify cases of domestic abuse or other family problems and encourage students or parents to seek additional assistance from mental health professionals
- Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks
- Provide special services such as alcohol and drug prevention programs and classes that teach students to handle conflicts without resorting to violence
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 29% 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