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EXPOSURE TO AI
15%
RESILIENT
OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
0%
of this role’s work is already showing up in real Claude usage (Anthropic Economic Index).
The last desk the machine reaches. Breathe.

15% 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
  • Document patient information, such as notes on their progress
  • Perform clerical duties, such as taking inventory, ordering supplies, answering telephone, taking messages, or filling out forms
  • Observe patients during treatments to compile and evaluate data on their responses and progress and provide results to physical therapist in person or through progress notes
  • Monitor operation of equipment and record use of equipment and administration of treatment
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
  • Instruct, motivate, safeguard, and assist patients as they practice exercises or functional activities
  • Instruct patients in proper body mechanics and in ways to improve functional mobility, such as aquatic exercise
  • Secure patients into or onto therapy equipment
  • Administer active or passive manual therapeutic exercises, therapeutic massage, aquatic physical therapy, or heat, light, sound, or electrical modality treatments, such as ultrasound
  • Transport patients to and from treatment areas, lifting and transferring them according to positioning requirements
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.
SOURCES: O*NET 30.3 occupational tasks · Eloundou et al. 2023 (“GPTs are GPTs”,arXiv:2303.10130) · Anthropic Economic Index 2026 (CC-BY)  | how this is calculated  | last updated 2026-07-16