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Analyze statistical data, such as mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates and construct probability tables to forecast risk and liability for payment of future benefits. May ascertain insurance rates required and cash reserves necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Analyze data to determine premium rates required and cash reserves and liabilities necessary to ensure payment of future benefits.No rating yet
- 02Analyze statistical information to estimate mortality, accident, sickness, disability, and retirement rates.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Design, review, and help administer insurance, annuity and pension plans, determining financial soundness and calculating premiums.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Collaborate with programmers, underwriters, accounts, claims experts, and senior management to help companies develop plans for new lines of business or improvements to existing business.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Provide advice to clients on a contract basis, working as a consultant.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Determine, or help determine, company policy, and explain complex technical matters to company executives, government officials, shareholders, policyholders, or the public.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 07Construct probability tables for events such as fires, natural disasters, and unemployment, based on analysis of statistical data and other pertinent information.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Determine equitable basis for distributing surplus earnings under participating insurance and annuity contracts in mutual companies.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Determine policy contract provisions for each type of insurance.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Provide expertise to help financial institutions manage risks and maximize returns associated with investment products or credit offerings.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 loss5%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
50%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 54% 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
Your human edge
AI touches every main task of this job in some way. Your edge is judgment: knowing when AI’s work is right, and checking it before it counts.
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