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Agents and Business Managers of Artists, Performers, and Athletes
Represent and promote artists, performers, and athletes in dealings with current or prospective employers. May handle contract negotiation and other business matters for clients.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Collect fees, commissions, or other payments, according to contract terms.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Send samples of clients' work and other promotional material to potential employers to obtain auditions, sponsorships, or endorsement deals.AI could speed this up a lot
- 03Keep informed of industry trends and deals.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Conduct auditions or interviews to evaluate potential clients.Mostly human for now
- 05Negotiate with managers, promoters, union officials, and other persons regarding clients' contractual rights and obligations.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 06Confer with clients to develop strategies for their careers, and to explain actions taken on their behalf.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Develop contacts with individuals and organizations, and apply effective strategies and techniques to ensure their clients' success.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Schedule promotional or performance engagements for clients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 09Arrange meetings concerning issues involving their clients.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 10Manage business and financial affairs for clients, such as arranging travel and lodging, selling tickets, and directing marketing and advertising activities.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 loss12%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
54%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 84% 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.
- Conduct auditions or interviews to evaluate potential clients.