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Actors
Play parts in stage, television, radio, video, or film productions, or other settings for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.Mostly human for now
- 02Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.Mostly human for now
- 03Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.Mostly human for now
- 04Study and rehearse roles from scripts to interpret, learn and memorize lines, stunts, and cues as directed.Mostly human for now
- 05Collaborate with other actors as part of an ensemble.Mostly human for now
- 06Learn about characters in scripts and their relationships to each other to develop role interpretations.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Perform humorous and serious interpretations of emotions, actions, and situations, using body movements, facial expressions, and gestures.Mostly human for now
- 08Read from scripts or books to narrate action or to inform or entertain audiences, utilizing few or no stage props.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Work with other crew members responsible for lighting, costumes, make-up, and props.Mostly human for now
- 10Promote productions using means such as interviews about plays or movies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss10%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
19%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 43% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 36% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Attend auditions and casting calls to audition for roles.
- Work closely with directors, other actors, and playwrights to find the interpretation most suited to the role.
- Portray and interpret roles, using speech, gestures, and body movements, to entertain, inform, or instruct radio, film, television, or live audiences.