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Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers
Conduct hearings to recommend or make decisions on claims concerning government programs or other government-related matters. Determine liability, sanctions, or penalties, or recommend the acceptance or rejection of claims or settlements.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Monitor and direct the activities of trials and hearings to ensure that they are conducted fairly and that courts administer justice while safeguarding the legal rights of all involved parties.Mostly human for now
- 02Prepare written opinions and decisions.People already use AI for this at work
- 03Conduct hearings to review and decide claims regarding issues, such as social program eligibility, environmental protection, or enforcement of health and safety regulations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 04Rule on exceptions, motions, and admissibility of evidence.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 05Research and analyze laws, regulations, policies, and precedent decisions to prepare for hearings and to determine conclusions.People already use AI for this at work
- 06Determine existence and amount of liability according to current laws, administrative and judicial precedents, and available evidence.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings.Mostly human for now
- 08Explain to claimants how they can appeal rulings that go against them.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Schedule hearings.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Review and evaluate data on documents, such as claim applications, birth or death certificates, or physician or employer records.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 loss31%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 46% 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
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Monitor and direct the activities of trials and hearings to ensure that they are conducted fairly and that courts administer justice while safeguarding the legal rights of all involved parties.
- Issue subpoenas and administer oaths in preparation for formal hearings.