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EXPOSURE TO AI
44%
MODERATE
OBSERVED IN REAL USE · Anthropic 2026
10%
of this role’s work is already showing up in real Claude usage (Anthropic Economic Index).
The boring parts are leaving. The judgment stays.

44% 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. In the blast radius. A real slice of the work is already automatable. The rest isn’t.

WHAT AI CAN ALREADY DO
  • Enter, store, and retrieve information on computer-aided equipment
  • Enter, position, and alter text size, using computers, to make up and arrange pages so that printed materials can be produced
  • Generate prepress proofs in digital or other format to approximate the appearance of the final printed piece
  • Proofread and perform quality control of text and images
  • "Perform ""preflight"" check of required font, graphic, text and image files to ensure completeness prior to delivery to printer."
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
  • Operate and maintain laser plate-making equipment that converts electronic data to plates without the use of film
  • Maintain, adjust, and clean equipment, and perform minor repairs
  • Punch holes in light-sensitive plates and insert pins in holes to prepare plates for contact with positive or negative film
  • Mix solutions such as developing solutions and colored coating solutions
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