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EXPOSURE TO AI
12%
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.

12% 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
  • Monitor patients' physical and emotional well-being and report unusual behavior or physical ailments to medical staff
  • Develop or teach strategies to promote client wellness and independence
  • Issue medications from dispensary and maintain records in accordance with specified procedures
  • Interview new patients to complete admission forms, to assess their mental health status, or to obtain their mental health and treatment history
WHAT IT STILL CAN’T
  • Observe and influence patients' behavior, communicating and interacting with them and teaching, counseling, or befriending them
  • Encourage patients to develop work skills and to participate in social, recreational, or other therapeutic activities that enhance interpersonal skills or develop social relationships
  • Restrain violent, potentially violent, or suicidal patients by verbal or physical means as required
  • Train or instruct new employees on procedures to follow with psychiatric patients
  • Take and record measures of patients' physical condition, using devices such as thermometers or blood pressure gauges
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